[Illustration:  533.—­Pattern in Guipure d’Art.]

No. 533 is a succession of point de feston stitches, which half fill each square of the netting.  This pattern must be worked with great regularity.

[Illustration:  534.—­Pattern in Guipure d’Art.]

No. 534 consists of a kind of double point d’esprit.

No. 535 is a thread twisted and taken across each square, and resembles lace stitches.

[Illustration:  535.—­Pattern in Guipure d’Art.]

No. 536 is a succession of small close wheels, intermingled with point d’esprit.  This grounding is very effective.

[Illustration:  536.—­Pattern in Guipure d’Art.]

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537.—­Lace Border for Veils, &c.

Materials:  Messrs. Walter Evans and Co.’s Mecklenburg thread No. 16; strip of square netting of the required length; oblong frame.

This simple border is easily and quickly worked.  The edge is overcast, the ground worked in point d’esprit, the border in point de toile, and the pattern in point de reprise.  When completed the netting is cut away from the overcast edge.

[Illustration:  537.—­Lace Border for Veils, &c.]

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538 and 538_a_.—­Squares in Guipure d’Art.

Materials:  2 squares of netting of 8 holes; Messrs. Walter Evans and Co.’s Mecklenburg thread No. 10 or 16, according to the fineness required.

[Illustration:  538.—­Square in Guipure d’Art.]

These squares are very pretty for cravat ends, cuffs, or handkerchiefs.  They are worked on netting with very fine cotton in the usual manner, beginning on two stitches in one corner The different stitches of the guipure darning can be distinctly seen in illustration, and are point de feston, point de reprise, point de toile, and point d’esprit on No. 538, and the same stitches surround a wheel in No. 538_a_.

[Illustration:  538_a_.—­Square in Guipure d’Art.]

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[Illustration:  539.—­Guipure d’Art Insertion.]

539.—­Insertion in Guipure d’Art.

Materials:  Messrs. Walter Evans and Co.’s Mecklenburg thread Nos. 8 to 16; strip of netting length, required.

This insertion is worked in point de toile, and wheels worked in point de feston.  The ground in point d’esprit.

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540 and 541.—­Square in Guipure Point de Venise (Reticella)

Materials:  Coarse or fine linen; Messrs. Walter Evans and Co.’s Mecklenburg thread No. 4 or 12.

[Illustration:  540.—­Square in Point de Venise.]

[Illustration:  541.—­Quarter Square in Reticella Work (Enlarged).]