MOCK LACES.
Take a piece of linen or “long-cloth” and stamp, or paint gum on all the parts of a pattern which is to remain intact, and soak it in a potash-bath at 22° Centigrade. In a short time the process of felting, analogous with that of skeletonizing leaves, will act exclusively on the ungummed places, and eat away about a twentieth. Only the experienced eye can tell it from embroidery. Shirt-fronts are thus worked.