DEEP POINT LACE, FOR A HANDKERCHIEF OR VEIL.
[Fig. 8.]
Visitors to the London Exhibition, will recognise this pattern as one of those in the gallery of that wondrous palace: I presume, therefore, it will be very acceptable to my fair readers.
The pattern of the flowers is well adapted for the mandarin sleeves which everbody wears just now. To draw the pattern for that purpose, merely copy over and over again the two large flowers at the bottom of the page. Draw the pattern on colored paper, and use a fine sable brush, dipped in Indian ink for coloring the lines; paste the paper on linen, and when dry it will be fit to be worked. A little more management is required when a pattern for a handkerchief is to be made. Cut a square of tissue paper, rather larger than the handkerchief is to be,—double it twice, so as to mark the centre of each side, and trace the three divisions of the corner flower up to a on one side of this centre, leaving room for half of another division; fold the paper and trace a similar piece of the flower on the other side of the centre, and finish also the division in the middle. As it will be seen on referring to the plate, that there are three divisions and nearly half another up to the a, it will be evident that the centre flower will have seven divisions. On the right of this centre draw three of the flowers at the lower edge of the frontispiece, and at the corner another flower, exactly like the centre one, but turned so as to form a corner. Trace the left hand side of the centre from that already done, and you will have a perfect side with two corners. Draw the pattern on colored paper, from this one side, and line it with linen before working it.
You will observe that there are two straight lines of braid in the inner border; the one nearest to the flowers is only to be laid on when working the lace, and connected with the other: no edging is to be put to it until after the hemmed cambric is laid underneath, when it is to be run on, and then edged with Brussels edging.
a.—Sorrento edging. To be worked with Mecklenburgh thread, 120.
b.—Venice edging. Boar’s-head thread, No. 50.
c.—Brussels edge. Ditto.
d.—Bars of Venice Point. Mecklenburgh thread, 120.
e.—Rosettes worked on 4 threads: the centre ones gradually increasing in size, towards the outer edge of the flower; the others as small as the spots of English Point. Boar’s-head thread, No. 90.
f.—Open English lace. Ditto.
g.—Brussels lace. Ditto.
h.—English lace. Boar’s-head thread, No. 70.
i.—Sorrento bars. Mecklenburgh thread, No. 120.
j.—Rosettes. Thread No. 70.
k.—Bars in Alencon point. Ditto.