[Illustration:  545.—­Work Basket Covered with Guipure d’Art.]

This elegant basket is made of bamboo cane and blue satin, fastened on cardboard, and covered with guipure d’art.  The stand of varnished bamboo is twelve inches long, seven and a half inches wide, and five and a half inches high.  The case inside is made of cardboard, covered on both sides with blue satin, and the guipure d’art on the outside only.  The stitches used are point de toile, point de reprise, and point d’esprit.

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546 and 547.—­Squares in Guipure d’Art.

Materials:  Messrs. Walter Evans and Co.’s Mecklenburg thread No. 12 or 20; and point d’esprit according to the fineness required.

[Illustration:  546.—­Square in Guipure d’Art.]

Both these square patterns are suitable for ornamenting lingerie, cravats, collars, &c.  Repeated at regular intervals on a larger centre, they are likewise suitable for couvrettes, cushions, pillow-cases, &c.; they are worked in darning and linen stitch.

[Illustration:  547.—­Square in Guipure d’Art.]

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548.—­Insertion in Guipure d’Art.

Materials:  Strip of netting 6 holes wide, and of the required length;
Messrs. Walter Evans and Co.’s Mecklenburg thread No. 8 or 12.

This simple insertion consists of double rows of wheels worked at each side of a strip of point d’esprit, an edge of button-hole stitches being worked between the rows.

[Illustration:  549.—­Guipure d’Art Insertion.]

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550 and 551.—­Squares for Antimacassar.

Materials:  Square of netting of 12 holes; Messrs. Walter Evans and Co’s
Mecklenburg thread No. 8.

[Illustration:  550.—­Square for Antimacassar.]

No. 550 is very quickly worked.  The border and groundwork in point d’esprit, the centre star in point de reprise, the pattern in point de toile.  Wheels fill in the four holes in the centre of the squares.

No. 551 has a border in point d’esprit, the star is worked in point de feston, the other stitches are point de toile.  Wheels in part of star pattern No. 518.

[Illustration:  551.—­Square for Antimacassar.]

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552 and 553.—­Borders in Guipure d’Art.

Material:  Messrs. Walter Evans and Co.’s Mecklenburg thread No. 8 or 16.

These corner borders are very suitable for couvrettes, and, worked with fine thread, for pocket-handkerchiefs.  The netted ground of the borders is to be worked in the size seen in illustration; for the border No. 553 darn the ground in button-hole stitch, darning stitch, point d’esprit, and point de feston; the pattern No. 552 is worked in linen stitch and point d’esprit; small wheels are also to be worked.  Both borders are to be worked round in button-hole stitch; the netted ground is cut away along the outside.