[Illustration:  552.—­Border in Guipure d’Art.]

[Illustration:  553.—­Border in Guipure d’Art.]

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554 and 555.—­Squares in Guipure d’Art.

Materials:  Messrs. Walter Evans and Co.’s Mecklenburg thread No. 20; netted squares of 7 and 8 holes.

[Illustration:  554.—­Square in Guipure d’Art.]

These two small squares are suitable for ornamenting cravats, lappets for caps and lingeries.  They are worked in darning and linen stitch.  The centre part of the square, No. 554, is a small wheel covered with raised stitches.

[Illustration:  555.—­Square in Guipure d’Art.]

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556.—­Square in Guipure d’Art.

Material:  Messrs. Walter Evans and Co.’s Mecklenburg thread No. 12.

The centre of this square is worked in point de feston as well as the border; point de toile forms the groundwork of the square in the centre, round which a row of button-hole stitch is worked.

[Illustration:  556.—­Square in Guipure d’Art.]

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557.—­Insertion in Guipure d’Art.

Materials:  Strip of netting of 4 holes in width; Messrs. Walter Evans and Co.’s Mecklenburg thread No. 12.

The ground of this simple pattern is worked in point d’esprit, square wheels are worked in the centre of the strip.

[Illustration:  557.—­Insertion in Guipure d’Art.]

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558 to 563.—­Different Strips of Insertion, Rosettes and Lace, in Guipure d’Art.

Materials:  Fine white cotton; Messrs. Waiter Evans and Co.’s Mecklenburg thread Nos. 16 and 20.

These strips of insertion, rosettes, and borders are very suitable for ornamenting lingeries, cravats, &c.  The ground of insertion, Nos. 558 and 560, is worked with fine white cotton over a fine steel knitting-needle, in slanting netting, and darned with thread in the manner seen in illustrations.  The ground of each strip is 11 rounds wide, and worked with button-hole stitch along the edges; the darned patterns can be worked from illustration.

[Illustration:  558.—­Insertion in Guipure d’Art.]

[Illustration:  559.—­Insertion in Guipure d’Art.]

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[Illustration:  560.—­Rosette in Guipure d’Art.]

For the rosette, No. 560, cast on 6 stitches over a fine knitting-needle, and join the stitches into a circle; in the 1st round work 2 stitches in every stitch.  In the 2nd—­5th rounds work 2 stitches in every increased stitch of the preceding round, and in every other stitch 1 stitch.  In the 6th round take a steel knitting-needle double the size of the first, and work over it 1 stitch in every stitch of the preceding round.  Then work the 7th round over the fine needle as follows:—­