_LINEN LACE-WORK._
Much of this is very ancient, and it is often so beautiful that it
comes properly under the head of art-needlework.
POINT-CONTÉ,
Best known by its modern name of Guipure d’Art, is almost the only kind
of ancient work which, in its modern revival, has retained some degree
of beauty.
Ancient guipure was made of thin vellum covered with gold, silver, or
silk thread; and the word guipure derives its name from the silk when
thus twisted round vellum being called by that name. Cotton afterward
replaced the vellum, and several modern laces are known as guipure; but
the name is not correct, and is appropriate only to that kind of lace
where one thread is twisted round another thread or substance, as in
the ancient Guipure d’Art.
This is effected by netting a foundation, and darning a pattern over it
with the same linen thread; so that the high-sounding point-conté is
simply darned netting. But beautiful effects are produced with it, and
it has a look of old church lace.
The groundwork should be netted with linen thread in the shape of a
square; and the thread may be coarse or fine according to the purpose
for which it is intended. The netting is begun with two stitches, and
one is added at the end of every row, until there is one more stitch
than is needed for the number of holes. Thus if a square of twenty-six
holes is required, increase until there are twenty-seven stitches; then
decrease one at the end of every row until only two stitches are left.
The last two are knotted together without forming a fresh stitch.
Great care should be taken to have the netting true and even, so that
it will stretch properly in the little frame used for the work.
Each corner of the netting should be fastened to the corresponding
corner of the frame; and the lacing should be made as tight as
possible, as it is much easier to work on than when loose.
The working of the most elaborate patterns in Guipure d’Art depends
entirely upon a mastery of the stitches, of which there is quite a
variety. Those in most common use are POINT D’ESPRIT, POINT DE TOILE,
POINT DE FESTON, POINT DE REPRISE, POINT DE BRUXELLES, and WHEELS AND
STARS.
[Illustration: Fig. 112.]
[Illustration: Fig. 113.]
POINT D’ESPRIT is a succession of small loops. Beginning in the lower
right hand corner of the framed foundation, a row of loops should be
worked of the length required; then the frame should be turned, and
loops worked on the opposite half of each square, intersecting the
first loops in the centre of each intervening bar of netting. The
illustration will make the work quite plain. This stitch is worked
with finer thread than that used in the foundation, No. 10, perhaps, on
a netting of No. 6.
POINT DE TOILE, or LINEN STITCH, is merely plain and regular darning
over and under each cross thread, making the foundation a closer piece
of network. There must be the same number of stitches in each square
both ways, to keep the foundation perfectly even; and although the
illustration has only four squares within each of the larger ones, it
is often made fine enough to contain six or eight.
POINT DE FESTON is done in overcast stitches. At each stitch the frame
is turned; the stitches are taken across the square, and increase in
length at the top of the square.
[Illustration: Fig. 114.]
[Illustration: Fig. 115.]
[Illustration: Fig. 116.]
[Illustration: Fig. 117.]
POINT DE REPRISE, or DARNING, is begun by stretching two or three
threads over one, two, or more squares. The threads are then darned
over and under; and the last stitch, while passing through, is arranged
with the needle to form the next. This is one of the easiest stitches
to learn; and it is always worked with _coarser_ thread than the
foundation.
POINT DE BRUXELLES is merely a kind of loose button-hole stitch, and is
principally used for filling up squares. It will also form leaves when
the number of stitches is lessened in each row until they finish off in
a point.
WHEELS are begun in the centre. Four threads are taken across, as shown
in the first illustration; the thread is twisted in returning to the
starting point, and the wheel formed by passing thread under and over
the netting and the crossing threads. It is fastened off at the back of
the wheel.
[Illustration: Fig. 118.--WHEEL BEGUN.]
[Illustration: Fig. 119.]
The next design is a square wheel. It is worked in the same way as
the preceding, with the addition of loops in POINT D’ESPRIT, through
which and under and over the cross-twisted threads four or five rows of
thread are passed.
[Illustration: Fig. 120.--SQUARE WHEEL.]
STARS are of various forms, as shown in figures.
The first one is worked in POINT DE FESTON around a single square hole,
which is filled in by a small wheel, or rosette.
The second is worked alternately in POINT DE FESTON and POINT DE
BRUXELLES around a centre crossed by POINT D’ESPRIT threads.
Figure 123 is more elaborate. Begin at the place marked _a_ (Figure
124), twist the thread three times round the nearest thread of the
netting, draw it on to the knot, _b_; repeat this three times,
following the order of the letters; twist the working thread also
between the threads, as seen in the illustration, and fasten it
underneath the knot, _a_; for the wheel, fasten on the cotton afresh,
and work the rest of the pattern in POINT DE REPRISE.
[Illustration: Fig. 121.--STAR.]
[Illustration: Fig. 122.]
The small square is worked on a foundation which is netted over a mesh
2 1-10 inches round; this foundation has seven stitches each way. The
embroidery is in DARNING-STITCH, POINT D’ESPRIT, and WHEELS. The outer
edge is button-holed. Larger squares can be made in the same way, with
a few added rows in length and breadth. These pieces are easily joined
together with a few stitches.
[Illustration: Fig. 123.]
[Illustration: Fig. 124.]
A quarter of a large square is given on page 121. The outer border is
done in POINT D’ESPRIT; next to this there is a border in
linen stitch. In each corner there is a large star, which is worked in
raised darning-stitch, and fastened to the netting at each point; there
is a wheel edged with button-hole stitch in the centre of the star. The
pattern for the centre of the square--only a quarter of which is shown
in the illustration--consists of four branches forming small triangles
in Point de Bruxelles, four open-work stars or wheels worked over four
holes of the netting, and a four-branched centre of Point de Feston
with a wheel in the middle.
[Illustration: Fig. 125.--SMALL SQUARE.]
[Illustration: Fig. 126.--QUARTER OF A SQUARE IN GUIPURE
D’ART.]
Fig. 127 is a pretty square that has the advantage of being very
quickly worked. The border and groundwork are done in Point d’Esprit,
the centre star in Point de Reprise, the pattern in Point de Toile.
The four holes in the centres of the darned squares are filled in with
wheels.
Small squares are very pretty for cuffs, handkerchiefs, or cravat ends.
They are worked with very fine cotton in the same manner as the larger
ones, beginning on two stitches in one corner. The different stitches
in the two patterns given will be recognized as Point de Feston, Point
de Reprise, Point de Toile, and Point d’Esprit.
[Illustration: Fig. 127.--SQUARE FOR ANTIMACASSAR.]
The handsome square (Fig. 130), is worked in Point d’Esprit, with an
outline edging of Point de Reprise. This part may also be done in close
button-hole stitch. The groundwork is in Point de Toile, with Point de
Reprise worked on it. It is very effective, and large and small squares
may easily be multiplied by different combinations.
[Illustration: Fig. 128.--SQUARE IN GUIPURE D’ART.]
[Illustration: Fig. 129.--SQUARE IN GUIPURE D’ART.]
ROSETTES, INSERTIONS, ETC.
The first Rosette is worked in Point de Toile and small wheels. The
central wheel is larger, and is ornamented with a round of overcast.
[Illustration: Fig. 130.--SQUARE IN GUIPURE D’ART.]
[Illustration: Fig. 131.--ROSETTE IN GUIPURE D’ART.]
[Illustration: Fig. 132.--ROSETTE IN GUIPURE D’ART.]
The star-shaped one has a knitted groundwork, which is made by casting
on six stitches, joining the stitches in a circle, and knitting in the
first round two stitches in every stitch. For the next eight rounds,
two stitches in every increased stitch; in all the other stitches,
one stitch. The last, or tenth round, is worked without increasing.
The rosette is then darned in darning-stitch, linen-stitch, and Point
d’Esprit. The edge is worked in button-hole stitch, three button-hole
stitches to every selvedge stitch.
[Illustration: Fig. 133.--INSERTION IN GUIPURE D’ART.]
[Illustration: Fig. 134.]
[Illustration: Fig. 135.]
The netted foundation of the inserting pattern is six holes wide. Begin
the netting at one corner with two stitches; work five rows, at the end
of each of which increase one stitch; continue to work the strip with
the same number of stitches--alternately decreasing one at the end of
one row, and _in_creasing one at the end of the next. To decrease,
net two stitches together; to increase, net two in one hole. When the
strip is long enough, finish it by decreasing in the same proportion as
the increasing at the beginning.
[Illustration: Fig. 136.]
[Illustration: Fig. 137.]
The pattern is worked in Point de Feston and star-wheel; the border is
of Point d’Esprit. The strip is finished on each side with a row of
button-hole stitches.
The four patterns given above will be found very useful for filling up
small squares, or for varying the groundwork of Point d’Esprit.
Figure 134 is a succession of Point-de Feston stitches, which half fill
each square of the netting. This pattern, to look well, must be worked
very evenly.
Figure 135 is a kind of double Point d’Esprit.
Figure 136 is a twisted thread taken _across_ each square, and
resembles lace stitches.
Figure 137 is a succession of small, close wheels, mingled with Point
d’Esprit. This makes a very effective grounding.
[Illustration: Fig. 138.--FLOWER IN GUIPURE D’ART.]
This flower, which can be used for many purposes, is worked in Point de
Reprise, and may be done either with linen thread or with purse silk in
colors.
The pretty corners for cushions, handkerchiefs, etc., are worked in
Point d’Esprit, Linen, and Darning-stitch; and the netted foundation
is done by casting on two stitches, and working in rows backwards and
forwards--increasing one stitch at the end of every row.
The corner border requires a strip of netting nine squares wide, cut
out in Vandykes on one side, and worked round in button-hole stitch.
The embroidery is done in Darning-stitch, Point d’Esprit, Linen-stitch,
bars, and wheels. It is edged with button-hole stitch on the outside,
on which is worked a row of crochet-purl.
For this, work one double in every button-hole stitch; after every
other stitch draw out the loop on the needle about one-tenth of an
inch; take out the needle and leave the loop as a purl; take up one
loop in the last double stitch, and cast it off with the next double
stitch.
Besides being used for tidies, cushions, etc., this border makes very
pretty inserting.
But we must leave the fascinating subject of _Guipure d’Art_, and
turn our attention to one or two other kinds of Linen Lace-Work.
POINT COUPÉ,
Or Cut-work, improperly called Greek lace, is made on a foundation of
linen, of which some of the threads are cut away and the others worked
over, making regular square spaces.
A clearly defined ground plan is thus produced, and the pattern,
however rich and varied, is subdued and confined by guiding lines,
and may be made to form stars, circles, crosses, or cobwebs, of a
geometrical character.
[Illustration: Fig. 139.]
[Illustration: Fig. 140.--CORNER BORDERS.]
This kind of work is very durable, and has all the respectability of
age. Old specimens of it are frequently seen, and the seventeenth
century painters were very partial to it, using it for the turned-up
cuffs of the vandyke dress, and to edge the falling collars. The finer
kinds of it are very laborious, and one beautiful variety wrought on
thin linen fabrics is known as Spanish nun-work.
Point Coupé is very effective in furniture decoration, and for this
purpose it can scarcely be too coarse. Brown packing-cloth makes a good
foundation; worked with brown thread in a suitable pattern, simple
enough to be clearly defined by the thick threads, it will make a
beautiful border. A Macramé fringe, made of the same thread as that
used for the work, will form a pretty finish, if the knotted pattern
is simple and unobtrusive, as it should not divide attention with the
border, to which it is only an appendage.
Cut-work is particularly suitable for the ends of a white linen
altar-cloth, worked on stout linen with a thick, soft, white linen
thread, and in a very rich pattern. The lace should be firmly finished
off with a flat hem of the linen all round, making it complete
in itself. A fringe of linen thread is a suitable finish to the
Point-Coupé.
After the cover, of finer linen, has been washed and gotten up without
starch, the cut-work borders should be sewn on the ends with an open
stitch, which may be easily cut when the cloth becomes soiled; which
will occur much oftener than with the borders.
Afternoon tea-cloths, cake-covers, etc., may be very prettily
ornamented with this linen work. When intended for a border, it should
be finished with close button-holing to make it strong.
For a tea-cloth, holland or crash makes a good foundation; and a
suitable pattern for this purpose is made by drawing out nine threads
each way, and stitching all around the square spaces--taking up three
threads with every stitch. In the openings thus made, wheels, stars, or
other figures, are worked.
[Illustration: Fig. 141.--CORNER BORDER IN GUIPURE D’ART.]
POINT-TIRÉ,
Or drawn-work, is also suited to decorative purposes; it is very simple
and easy of execution--being very effective in proportion to the labor
spent upon it. It is an Italian invention, and is very ornamental for
the ends of table-cloths, toilet-cloths, tidies, or towels--the last
especially being its original use.
Point-tiré is made in the material of the cloth itself; some of the
threads being drawn out, and the remainder worked into patterns more or
less elaborate. A hem-stitch like that used for pocket-handkerchiefs
is useful in this work; it may be done singly along a row of drawn
threads, or for a broader line on both sides the row--either taking up
the same threads as those taken on the other side, so making little
bars, or taking half the threads from each of two of the opposite
stitches, and thus forming a zigzag.
[Illustration: Fig. 142.--COVER FOR A SMALL TRAY.]
Other patterns may be made by passing a thick linen thread along the
centre of a row of threads from which the weft has been drawn, and
either twisting them over each other or knotting them into groups.
It adds to the beauty of an article to embroider the spaces of plain
linen between the rows of drawn work, either with silk, or with red or
blue embroidery cotton, mixing a little of whichever is used with the
fringe. The patterns should be very simple: line patterns, dots, stars,
etc.
Figure 142 is a good specimen of embroidered drawn-work.
The materials used for this cover are white linen and coarse white
embroidery cotton. The linen must not be very fine, and it should be of
rather loose texture.
When cut to the desired size the first thing to be done is to ravel
out the threads for the purpose of forming the fringe, which should be
about an inch deep. It should at first be ravelled on only three sides:
the selvedge and the two cross sides--the other selvedge side being
left until the work is nearly finished.
For the work, draw out twenty-seven threads close together; then leave
a space, and draw out twenty-seven more in the same manner. The space
from which the threads are drawn is worked in a kind of open-stitch
with coarse embroidery cotton. Twelve threads are taken up with the
needle, and fixed by a back-stitch. Six threads are dropped; and then
again twelve are taken up in the same way as before--thus forming the
chain pattern shown in the illustration.
From the middle of the opaque stripe a single thread is drawn, and
worked in common hem-stitch; and on each side, narrow stripes in
satin-stitch form a sort of herring-bone pattern.
The work consists entirely of a series of opaque and open stripes. When
the requisite number of stripes is complete, the fringe may be ravelled
out on the fourth side, and the cover is finished.
This work washes well; but it should not be starched or ironed. The
proper way of doing it up is to pin or baste it flat and tight while
wet, upon a board, or the floor, and let it dry.
IMITATION OF ANTIQUE LACE.
A very rich kind of work founded upon old lace is done by drawing
patterns on linen and overcasting or button-holing the outlines. The
ground between is then cut away, and the patterns enriched with bars,
cords, and raised work.
This kind of linen embroidery may be made very beautiful and lace-like;
the exquisite patterns of Venetian, rose, raised, or bone point, can
easily be reproduced in it, although, while preserving the peculiar
beauty of their forms and proportions, they should, to adapt them to
this work, be considerably enlarged and their details much simplified.
Unless these rules are carefully followed, the linen-work will appear
only a coarse and unsuccessful imitation of the original lace.
This work is sometimes outlined with gold thread, which has an
exceedingly rich and beautiful effect; and with a lining of amber, or
golden-brown satin, a handsome and unique covering may be made for a
variety of articles.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.--WORSTED EMBROIDERY.
PAGE.
Crewel Work 6
The Crewel Stitch 7
Articles to be Worked in Crewels 12
An Embroidered Frieze 12
A Dado in Crewels 12
A Worsted-Worked Portière 13
Curtains with Sprays of Sumac 14
A Sweet-Pea Table Cover 14
Screens in Crewel-Work 14
Carriage Wraps 15
CHAPTER II.--SIMPLE IDEAS OF COLORS.
CHAPTER III.--SILK EMBROIDERY.
The Stitch for Silk Embroidery 20
Group of Flowers for Silk Embroidery 21
French, or Flat Embroidery 23
The French Knot 24
Stalk-Stitch 24
Point Russe 25
Herring-Bone, or Feather Stitch 27
Chain-Stitch 28
Ladder-Stitch 31
Chinese Embroidery 32
CHAPTER IV.--DESIGNING AND TRANSFERRING DESIGNS.
Transferring Designs 40
CHAPTER V.--ARTICLES IN SILK EMBROIDERY.
A Screen of Peacock Feathers 42
A Pretty Banner-Screen 42
Another „ „ 42
Embroidered Table-Top 43
Window-Curtain Border 43
Embroidered Dresses 43
Panels 44
Small Curtains or Hangings 44
A Wreathed Picture 44
An Embroidered Room 45
A Fan Table-Cover 45
A Chair-Cover 45
Fire-Screens 45
A Child’s Afghan 46
CHAPTER VI.--PRINT-WORK.
CHAPTER VII.--SILK EMBROIDERY WITH GOLD.
Modern Work 49
Materials Used 49
Gold Cord 50
Gold Braid 50
Bullion 50
Spangles 51
Gold Thread 51
CHAPTER VIII.--EMBROIDERED BOOKS AND OTHER ARTICLES.
A Maroon-velvet Book 53
A Queen’s Needlework 53
Petrarch’s Sonnets 55
Another Royal Book 55
A Book of Engravings 55
Scrap-Book Covers 57
Album Covers 57
Letter-Case 58
Gold and Silk Embroidery 60
CHAPTER IX.--APPLIED WORK WITH EMBROIDERY.
A Lambrequin in Appliqué 65
Key-Bag in Appliqué and Embroidery 71
Silk Appliqué Work 72
Cretonne Work 75
Crape Pictures in Appliqué 77
Linen Appliqué 78
CHAPTER X.--EMBROIDERY IN CHENILLE.
CHAPTER XI.--SILK EMBROIDERY ON LINEN.
Embroidered Fruit Doyleys 82
CHAPTER XII.
Holbein Work 86
CHAPTER XIII.--CHURCH EMBROIDERY.--PART I.
Implements needed 101
Stitches 103
Basket-Stitch 105
Floss Silk 106
CHAPTER XIV.--CHURCH EMBROIDERY.--PART II.
Pulpit, or Desk Hangings 109
Church Book-Markers 111
Designs on Cardboard 113
Church-Work in Appliqué 114
CHAPTER XV.--LINEN LACE WORK.
Point-Conté 116
Rosettes, Insertions, etc. 122
Point-Coupé 126
Point-Tiré 127
Imitation of Antique Lace 129
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A delightful little volume, written by a lady fond of flowers, as a
special help and assistance to others interested in out-door flower
gardening. Simple directions are given, how to lay out and plant
Flower Borders, Ribbon Beds, and arrange ornamental plants. Among the
topics treated are Geraniums, Fuchsias, Bulbs, Ornamental Flowering
Shrubs, Everlasting Flowers, Ornamental Grasses, Coleus, Pæonies,
Shade Trees, Garden Vegetables, Old Fashioned Flowers, Annual Flowers,
Perennials, Ornamental Vines, Lawns, Insects, Manures, Watering Soils.
When and How to Plant Dahlias, Lilies, Gladiolus, Verbenas, Cannas,
Balsams, Portulaccas, and nearly all the popular varieties of flowers
and shrubs. The book contains 148 pages, is charmingly written by one
deeply in love with the subject, who appreciates the tastes of ladies,
and aims to do good with agreeable, kindly advice on home gardening.
For sale, or supplied by Bookstores everywhere.
Price, in handsome Pamphlet Covers, 50 cents; bound in Cloth, $1;
post-paid by mail.
_Address ADAMS & BISHOP, Publishers_,
P. O. Box 2456. 46 Beekman Street, New York.
Transcriber’s Notes:
1. Obvious printers’, punctuation and spelling errors have been
corrected silently.
2. Some hyphenated and non-hyphenated versions of the same words have
been retained as in the original.
3. Italics are shown as _xxx_.
4. Bold print is shown as =xxx=.