Miscellaneous fancy work.
As the plan on which this book was constructed rendered a systematic classification of the different subjects it treats of necessary, a certain amount of miscellaneous fancy work, which does not come under any of the previous headings remains to be dealt with in the present chapter. In most cases the illustrations and the accompanying directions are but an application to a practical use of the different kinds of stitches already described in previous chapters and those who are familiar with all these various branches of needlework will have no difficulty in understanding what follows.
Knotted cord (figs. [831], [832], [833], [834], [835]).—The knotted cord referred to in the letter press belonging to figs. [772] and [773] in the chapter on [Irish lace], comes under the present heading: in making it, the fingers take the place of a crochet needle.
You tie two ends of thread or braid together, take one thread in the left hand fig. [831], and with the forefinger of the right, pull out a loop long enough for the left forefinger to pass through and hold the end of the thread tight with the little finger of the right hand.
Then draw the left forefinger backwards through the loop and behind the thread that is round the loop and lies in the left hand, fig. [832]. As you lay the thread round the left forefinger, you must pass the knot and the ends of thread as well, over into the left hand, and with the right hand pull the thread that lies on the right and draw up the loop, fig. [833].
Fig. 831. Knotted cord. First position of the hands.
