Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-01-30
GUIPURE DART.


Girls May Easily Learn.
Guipure Dart is that species of needlework
commonly known as antique lace. This lace
can be purchased so cheaply that it would
scarcely pay any girl to make it. But it
would pay her to learn the stitches, as they
nre of use in other kinds of needlework
Guipure dart is generally made of linen
thread, but silk or other material may he
substituted. 1t is worked ON foundation of
netting usually called tilet.
Netting is easily made The necessary i'm
plements are netting needle and a mesh
stick. The mesh stick is of ivory, round or
hat-fiat is better for antique lace The net
ting needle may be of steel for linen thread
or silk, bone for wool The needle is straight
and forked at both ends. 1t should be wound
lengthwise with thread, moderately full, like
a shuttle.
To begin and net, pin a foundation loop
fast to a cushion or table cover What you
want Is a firm starting point. This may be
dispensed with after the work is sufficiently
advanced. Tie the end of the working thread
that wound on the needle fast to the founda-
ton loop and take the mesh stick in the left
hand, holding it between the thumb and fore
finger. Take the needle in the right hand,
pass the thread downward over the stick and
the extended fingers; bring it up over the
outside of the fingers, then forward between
the thumb and forefnger, between which the
loose loop thus made is held tightly for the
present.
Now throw the thread down again over the
outside of the hand, bring the needle towards
you, pass it upward through the loop held
over the fingers, under the mesh stick,
through the foundation loop and in front of
the thread proceeding from the thumb Now
gradually draw the needle through, so as to
form knot and loop over the mesh stick
The stick regulates the size of the loop. Only
practice can teach you just how to do this
Make another loop just like the first in the
foundation loop. Then draw out the stick;
make another row in the same way, making
one more loop in each row. Work in each
loop of the preceding row, just as you did in
the foundation loop The work thus proceeds
diagonally, but the meshes pull out square.
If desired netting can be started ON long
string, instead of a foundation loop. Variety
can be introduced by using sticks or threads
of several sizes in alienation In wool or
silk several colors may be used and beads
tackled on the knots or narrow ribbon run in
Netting is frequently used for shoulder capes,
tides, babies caps, etc. To make the crown
of a baby's cap do about thirty loops in row,
then run thread through and draw up in a
circle Around this work as many rows Of
loops as may be desired. Netting is often
edged off with ornamental crochet stitches
With stout twine, like macrame cord, any girl
OF boy might net fishing net or a hammock
Fiet proper Is coarse, square meshed net
ting of linen thread To make guipure dart
the filet is first mounted on frame. A suit
able frame can be made by bending wire
into the shape of square or rectangle joining
the ends carefully and covering the wire
smoothly with old silk or IN usiin sewed over
the wire like tubing. Over this open parallel
ogram stretch out the filet, sewing or lacing
the edges firmly to the covering.
The filet is to be filled in with lace stitches.
some of which you already know You know
that point de Bruxelles, or Brussels point, is
a loose buttonhole stitch, so loose that the
stitches hang down in loops or picots
Now, if you make two rows of this cross
ing each other SO that the loops are turned in
opposite directions, you have made point
desprit. If you examine piece of antique
lace you will see that its ground is largely
covered with this stitch.
Another common stitch is plain in and out
darning. But done evenly and carefully, it
becomes an art stitch, known as point de toile
it is done over the corner of a square, with a
succession of loops over the foundation
threads. Point de feston and point de
Bruxelles can be grouped or combined in
various ways, to form blocks, stars and other
patterns
Point de reprise is used chiefly in making
leaves, petals, etc. Stretch two or three
threads over one or more squares, then darn
in and out over these threads. All of these
stitches are exceedingly simple. With the
present hints, all that you need in order to
learn taem is to examine piece of antique
lace. Wheels are sometimes introduced
These are the very same as used in point lace.
Lace-stitched done in silk are sometimes in
troduced into art embroidery. have seen a
pattern initiating antique lace, the squares
of filet outlined upon plush foundation and
then worked over with point de feston
The edge of antique lace is finished off with
close buttonhole stitch The scallops are cut
out in square points, following. of course, the
character Of the meshes. Netting may be
cut any length or width convenient, as it
does not ravei t.-Margaret B. Harvey in
Philadelphia Times.