Materials.—Cotton, No. 3; Italian net.
I may observe, en passant, that this cotton is the only one which has been manufactured expressly for Tatting, and is really suited for that work.
Work the ovals and loops as seen in the Engraving, leaving threads wherever they appear to be required; draw the pattern on colored paper, from the engraving; lay the net on, and tack the various parts of them in their places, according to the design; sew over the threads, centres, &c., with the same cotton, and cut out the net; fill in the centre of each flower with a rosette of English Point (see Part III.), worked in Evans’s Mecklenburgh, 100; the other open parts might also very effectively be filled in like manner. A muslin band must be sewed round the neck.
ANOTHER COLLAR IN FRIVOLITE.
[Fig. 11.]
Materials.—Tatting cotton, No. 3. Make 13 large trefoils without the pearl edge, and 14 smaller ones, leaving the length of thread shown in the engraving between every two.
Make also 75 ovals with pearl edge, and two larger ones for the corners.
Make up the collar like the last, sewing over all the threads closely in a button-hole stitch.
CROCHET INSERTION.
WORKED THE SHORT WAY.
Materials.—Cotton, No. 60, for children’s dresses, &c.