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180 on rather coarse material. A bureau cover or a stand cloth of butcher's linen, cotton momie cloth, or crash, is a good thing to begin on. Measure off a good depth for your fringe. If you wish to knot it, allow two or three times the length of the finished fringe.

Half an inch from the fringe, draw the cross or weft threads out for a distance of about three-quarters of an inch. Leave a bar at either end which should be neatly buttonholed with linen thread.

Thread an ordinary sewing needle with No. 70 cotton; beginning at the right hand, pass your needle under four or five warp or lengthwise threads, draw it up at the left hand, and passing back to the right hand take a fine hemming stitch, and go on as before. This is for the upper line. The lower one is done in the same way, only reversing the hemming stitch. Having hem-stitched both sides, take a needleful of rather coarse linen thread, about twice as long as the width of your work. Fasten it securely to the centre one of the end bars; fasten three of the clusters of threads together with a loop-stitch, which is formed by passing your thread over the clusters, and (making it describe a large scallop below your work) put your needle at the right hand in above the working thread, passing under the clusters, and bringing it out below the working thread, and inside the scallop formed by the loosely hanging thread. Draw this up so as to form a firm knot, and go on to the next cluster. When finished, the connecting thread should appear as a perfectly straight line, neither tight enough to pucker the work, nor so loose as to look untidy. Where a greater number of threads have been drawn, having fastened the working thread as before, pass over eight clusters, and putting your needle in, bring it out again between the fourth and fifth clusters, putting it in again on the