The edge of the handkerchief border is finished with close button-hole stitch, on which Raleigh dots are worked at regular intervals. This edge is worked after all the rest of each quarter is finished.
If it be thought troublesome to outline the whole pattern with thread, No. 5 white cotton French braid may be used. The effect is, however, greatly inferior to that of the thread.
To make up the handkerchief, cut a square of cambric the exact size to fit the lace, allowing for a very narrow hem. When the hem is made, lay the inner line of the lace over it, tack them together, and work a row of close Brussels edge over the two, to connect them.
APRON IN BRODERIE EN LACET.
MATERIALS..—Three-quarters of a yard of wide black silk of satin, two knots of Russia silk braid, of any colour that may be approved, and a dozen skeins of sewing silk to match.
The term broderie en lacet is applied to a new and very pretty style of embroidery, in which the outlines are made with silk braid, and filled in with point-lace stitches. The pattern must be enlarged, and one-half drawn on a large sheet of paper: the outlines marked with a needle, and the silk pounced from it, one side of the paper marking one-half, and the reverse side the other.
For running on the braid, use the threads of the silk of which it is composed, in preference to the ordinary sewing silk. Cut off a piece of the braid three-quarters of a yard long before you begin, and draw the threads out of it for the braiding. When joins occur, the ends are to be drawn through the silk with a long needle, and fastened off on the wrong side.