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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: and net five rows; next take a skein of lilac silk, and attach it to the fifth stitch of the first green row, then net five rows as before, drawing the needle through the last stitch of each of the green rows; continue thus, alternately, to the end of the five rows, then commence five other rows, placing the green under the lilac, and the lilac under the green, or use two new colours, contrasting them judiciously. A Shaded Sllk Pubse. As the shaded silk is generally of a fine size, use a No. 17 mesh, and a foundation of ninety stitches. If the shaded silk is used alone, the purse is netted in the usual way, as with plain netting silk. But if stripes of a plain colour are to be introduced, the effect of which is very pretty, then net four rows of the plain colour, and six of the shaded or chin6, if preferred, and continue thus, alternately, until the purse is finished. Treble Diamond Netting is a similar though more complicated process. After netting three plain rows at the commencement, the first row must consist of one loop-stitch and three plain stitches, repeated until you have completed the row. In working the second row, begin with a plain stitch, following it with a loop, then two plain stitches, and so on to the end. For the third row commence with one or two plain stitches to meet the long loops, then make a loop- stitch, net a plain stitch and repeat the loops and the plain stitch alternately, till the row is finished. For the fourth row you net three plain stitches and make a loop stitch, repeating as before. The mesh must be withdrawn before the loop-stitches are netted, and an odd number of stitches are required for the foundation. Diamond Netting. This is a pretty style of netting, without being difficult of execution; and is accomplished by making ...