Fig. 371. Darning on threads stretched horizontally. Position of the horizontal threads.
Fig. 372. Darning on threads stretched horizontally. How to cover the horizontal threads.
Then descending, pick up the nearest horizontal thread from below, so that the working thread lies to the right of the needle, and cover all the horizontal threads you have laid in this manner.
When you have taken up the last thread, pass the needle downwards from above, through the nearest loop, and bring it back through the one at which you entered it.
To make, in reascending, the second half of the loop, you must lay your thread to the right of the needle, fig. [372].
When you have reached the last thread, enter the needle at the loop, opposite the one it came out of.
Darning on threads stretched obliquely across (figs. [373] and [374]).—As the illustration shows, you have to pick up all the cleared loops, besides two or three on either side of the empty space. The number and length of the threads which you carry across, must correspond with those of the threads you have to replace.