TOILET COVERS, BED SPREADS, &c.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1842, 17 January 1880, Page 3

TOILET COVERS, BED SPREADS, &c.

Beautiful toilet covers, as well as pillowshams and bed spreads are made of common lace mosquito net, and coarse darning cotton. The designs are the same as those used in Breton lace ; simple geometrical patterns are prettiest, and almost any braiding pattern will answer for a guide. The cotton is run in and outf throughjthe meshes and returned through the same ones whenever it is neces sary to complete the design. Small mats have a border round the outside and are finished on the edge with a button-hole scollop or narrow lace. Spreads and shams are usually worked in stripes. First four threads are run through the meshes, then a pattern is put in ; then four more plain threads and a different pattern follow, and these are alternated over the entire width. The distance between the threads and stripes are matters of taste. One row of meshes between the straight lines looks well, and for the balance an open pattern is more effective than a very close and elaborate one. When finished, the net must be lined with colored silk or cambric and edged with a strong lace, or a broad hem may be tnrued np and run with two rows of cotton and the lining caught to it. The same lace made into an insertion with coarse linen-floss, will be found a pretty and durable trimming for underclothing.