VOGUE FOR NETTING

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22629, 18 January 1937, Page 3

VOGUE FOR NETTING

A VARIETY OF TYPES Netting is coming into clothes, and not only in the form of a chenille net for the back hair. This has gone out somewhat, and the present netting is that once done by great-grandmothers who made it into mats or curtains, as the fancy took them. Jabots are made of netting; so are collars and cuffs. There is, of course, only the one stitch in netting, but this can be elaborated, by differences in sizes, by shaping into Vandykes, and by darning.

The use of different thicknesses in the thread also makes a difference. Many men know the knot, which is complicated at first, but once learned opens up the whole field. The tools are merely a netting needle and meshes of different sizes. Pencils, knitting needles, or rulers will serve for the latter, according to the size required. There remain to-day prettilyembroidered "stirrups" with which grandmother used to hold her thread taut. The modern netter mostly takes a loop of thread. On this she puts her stitches, which for a jabot or collar must be a good many. Pencil size is a good one for collars, and at the end it can be finished off by vandyking, which simply means leaving a stitch at the end of each row. Netting is light and becoming to the face, and, if starched, it makes the sort of ruff that was used for hamfrills.