COLOURS: Vert-Mousse 471 and Rouge-Cornouille 450, or Rouge-Framboise
686 and Gris-Coutil 323.[A]]
BORDER WITH SHELL KNOTS (figs. 574, 575, 576, 577).—Fill the macramé
shuttles with the requisite length of thread. Knot the threads on, as in
fig. 520, in the following order; 1 double thread of colour 471, 6
double threads of colour 450, 2 of colour 471, 6 of colour 450, 1 of
colour 471.
From left to right and over the 1st thread: 1 double knot with the 2nd
thread; over the 4th thread of colour 450, and from right to left,
double knots with the 3rd, 2nd and 1st thread of the same colour = from
left to right: 1 double knot with the 6th thread of colour 450 over the
5th, and with the 3rd thread over the 2nd = from right to left: 5 double
knots over the 8th thread of colour 450 = from left to right: 1 double
knot over the 10th thread, 1 double knot over the 5th thread, 1 double
knot over the 1st thread = from right to left: 7 double knots over the
12th thread = from left to right: 3 detached double knots.
Then, from left to right, and subsequently from right to left = with 6
green threads: 2 double bars slanting over the 2 red threads (see the
top of fig. 577); unite the 4 red threads in the middle and make a shell
knot with them, fig. 575, consisting of 6 flat knots, fig. 576; take 2
threads on the right and 2 on the left, turn them down to the left and
right, and then from the wrong side to the right, over the threads that
come from the bars and close with a flat knot. On the sides, make
double bars and between each bar, 2 single chain knots.
[Illustration: FIG. 575. LARGE SHELL KNOT, OPEN.