Encyclopedia of Needlework Part 49

[Ill.u.s.tration: FIG. 587. WORKING DETAIL OF FIG. 586.]

MACRAMe FRINGE OR GROUND (figs. 586 and 587).--Entire length of the threads for No. 8 of Cordonnet 6 fils D.M.C: 150 c/m.

This effective pattern is not difficult, save in appearance, so that it is unnecessary to describe it in detail; for the knotting on, see fig.

525; for the plain bars, figs. 539 to 544; for the collecting knots, fig. 530. The only difficult point is where the threads cross each other inside the bars and form a check and by carefully following the course of the knots in fig. 587, that will be easily overcome.

FRINGE OR GROUND WITH PICOTS (fig. 588).--Wind the threads on shuttles and do the knotting on, as in fig. 521, followed by a double horizontal bar.

Leave a small s.p.a.ce between the double bar and the 3rd bar, which is a single one, in which you cross the threads without knotting them.

Beginning on the left--over the 2nd and 3rd thread: 2 b.u.t.tonhole knots, 1 picot, 2 b.u.t.ton hole knots = over the 1st, 2nd and 3rd thread: 1 double knot with each of the 3 next threads = over the 6th and 7th with the 5th thread: 4 b.u.t.tonhole knots with 1 picot after the 2nd knot.

With each of the 4 next threads, that is the 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th: 1 flat double knot followed by: 1 bar of double knots over the 12th thread as the cord, made with the 11th, 10th and 9th thread = add 1 bar with the 11th thread as the cord, and the 7 next ones as the knotting threads = add 1 bar with the 10th thread as the cord, and the 7 next ones as the knotting threads. Leave 3 threads free on the right = with the 8 threads on the left: 1 bar over the thread before these 3 threads = leave 3 free again on the right = 1 quintuple bar with the remaining threads.

* 1 flat double knot with the 15th, 16th and 17th thread = with the 20th thread, over the 19th, 18th and 17th thread: 4 b.u.t.tonhole knots with 1 picot after 2 knots = knot 4 threads over the 13th thread and from left to right = from left to right, 2 bars with all the threads **.

[Ill.u.s.tration: FIG. 588. FRINGE OR GROUND WITH PICOTS. MATERIALS: Cordonnet 6 fils D.M.C Nos. 10 to 40 or Fil a dentelle D.M.C Nos. 25 to 50.[A] COLOURS: White, ecru, or any light shade mentioned in the D.M.C colour card.[A]]

Over the 2 threads on the left and with the 3rd thread: 4 b.u.t.tonhole knots and 1 picot = with the 6 threads from the left: 2 bars consisting of b.u.t.tonhole knots and picots = a 3rd bar with 6 double knots = join it to the last bar.

Leave 2 threads of the bar of b.u.t.tonhole knots free = with the outer thread make: 4 b.u.t.tonhole knots and 1 picot over the 2nd thread and the cord of the bar.

Repeat from * to ** along the bar, also from right to left.

Left group--knot the 3 last threads over the 4th thread and from left to right.

Right group--make, from right to left, 1 bar consisting of 6 double knots, over the 4th thread counting from right to left. After these last changes of the threads no difficulty will be found in copying the rest of the pattern.

[Ill.u.s.tration: FIG. 589. DOUBLE FRINGE. MATERIALS: Cordonnet 6 fils D.M.C Nos. 10 to 30 and Coton a broder D.M.C Nos. 16 to 35. COLOURS: White for the Cordonnet, Rouge-Grenat 335 for the Coton a broder.]

[Ill.u.s.tration: FIG. 590. KNOTTED BERRY FOR FIG. 589.]

[Ill.u.s.tration: FIG. 591. LARGE Sh.e.l.l KNOT, OPEN.]

[Ill.u.s.tration: FIG. 592. LARGE Sh.e.l.l KNOT, SHUT.]

DOUBLE FRINGE (figs. 589, 590, 591, 592).--Entire length of the threads for No. 10 of Cordonnet 6 fils D.M.C: 100 c/m., and entire length for No. 16 of Coton a broder D.M.C: 40 c/m. Knot on, as in fig.

515, 1 thread of Cordonnet, 4 of Coton a broder (these are to be taken double) 2 of Cordonnet, 4 of Coton a broder, and so on.

In the second horizontal bar, you only use the red threads of Coton a broder for knotting, not the white Cordonnet ones. To supply their place, knot on two threads of red Coton a broder under the white threads.

With the red threads (4 count as one) make 3 rows of collecting knots, followed by a single horizontal bar. Divide the white threads into twos and make single chains with them, the whole length of the fringe; the thread must be changed 8 times for each chain; then pa.s.s the right chain under the left one and join them by a flat double knot.

You then, with the threads turned outwards, right and left, make the single chain with 5 changes of the threads and join them together again by a flat knot.

The other single chains are made with 6 and 8 changes of the threads and crossed under the double knots. The ta.s.sels, which the red threads serve as a foundation to, are begun by: 1 waved plait with two knots, then 4 single chains, again a waved plait and 1 berry composed of knots.

This berry is made over the 8 threads that come from the chains, with a long auxiliary thread, knotted as shown in fig. 590.

[Ill.u.s.tration: FIG. 593. MACRAMe BORDER. MATERIALS: Cordonnet 6 fils D.M.C Nos. 10 to 20 and Or fin D.M.C No. 30. COLOUR--For the cotton: Vert metallique 465[A]]

[Ill.u.s.tration: FIG. 594. BEADED GROUND. MATERIALS: Cordonnet 6 fils D.M.C No. 25 or Fil a dentelle D.M.C Nos. 25 to 50 and gold beads.[A]]

Large sh.e.l.l knots, as described in figs. 591 and 592 may be subst.i.tuted in the place of the berry, fig. 590.

MACRAMe BORDER (fig. 593).--Fill 24 shuttles, knotted together, that is, 2 and 2, and knot on 3 green threads, 6 gold and 3 green. The changing of the threads and the course of the knots can be so easily copied from the pattern that a description in detail is not necessary, it is sufficient to observe that all the dark parts in the engraving should be worked in green and the light ones in gold.

[Ill.u.s.tration: FIG. 595. SQUARE OF MOSAIC MACRAMe. MATERIALS: Fil a pointer D.M.C No. 30, Coton a broder D.M.C No. 16 and Or fin D.M.C pour la broderie No. 20[A]. COLOURS: Rouge-Cardinal 346, Rouge-Grenat 326 and 309, Bleu-Indigo 312 and 334, Gris-Tilleul 391 and 393[A].]

BEADED GROUND (fig. 594).--Knot on 4 threads for every group of knots, and secure them by a knot and a picot, as shown in the engraving. Work the groups of knots, as indicated in fig. 568, and after each group is finished, thread a gold bead on to every 2 threads. Our model is worked in ecru thread and gold beads; the latter go very well with any colour and especially with the more subdued shades of green, such as the Vert-Mousse, Vert Bouteille and Gris-Tilleul of the D.M.C colour card.

SQUARE OF MOSAIC MACRAMe (figs. 595 and 596).--This little pattern ill.u.s.trates the way in which tapestry and cross-st.i.tch patterns can be utilised for macrame.

All patterns that are drawn on checked paper can be copied in macrame and even in several colours. For every square, you count either one single or one double thread, according to the scale on which the work is to be.

In the case of a single thread, you count one double knot per square, in that of a double one, 4 double knots, two in the first and two in the second row.

After knotting the threads together, two and two, and pinning them to the cushion, see letter _a_, make 2 single chains with 2 changes of the thread, letters _b_ and _c_, then take a very long cord, letter _d_, and knot on the threads. The cord forms picots along two sides of the square; into which you fasten threads, letters _e_ and _f_, for the single chain formed, on the two other sides by the knotting threads.

[Ill.u.s.tration: FIG. 596. WORKING DETAIL OF FIG. 595.]

The coloured threads for the flowers are knotted on as the pattern requires it, taking the place for the time being, of those with which the foundation is made, which are left hanging on the wrong side until they are wanted again.

The top leaves of the iris shaped flower, are worked in two shades of blue; the bottom ones, in three shades of red, the stalk and the leaves in green, and the little stars, with which the ground is powdered, in real gold thread.

When the ground is finished, you make the same openwork border at the sides and along the bottom, as at the top and finish off with very full ta.s.sels, hung on over 3 double threads and made of all the colours used in the square, tied up with gold thread, fig. 596 letter _g_.

FRINGE WITH THREE ROWS OF Ta.s.sELS (fig. 597).--As this kind of fringe is chiefly used for tr.i.m.m.i.n.g carpets, curtains and furniture, it is best to make it in the coa.r.s.est numbers of the materials indicated at the foot of the engraving.

[Ill.u.s.tration: FIG. 597. FRINGE WITH THREE ROWS OF Ta.s.sELS. MATERIALS: Cordonnet 6 fils D.M.C Nos. 3 to 30, or Fil a pointer D.M.C Nos. 10 to 30[A]. COLOURS: Bleu-Indigo 312 and ecru.]

The pattern is so simple in its construction that it is sufficient to refer our readers to fig. 528, for the knotting on of the threads and to fig. 531, for the waved plait.

The little ta.s.sels between the knots, are made separately from the rest of the work and fastened on by the thread with which you sew them together at the top.

[Ill.u.s.tration: FIG. 598. MACRAMe GROUND. MATERIALS: Ganse turque D.M.C No. 12 and Coton a broder D.M.C No. 16. COLOURS: Rouge-Cardinal 347, or Rouge-Cerise 3318.]

MACRAMe GROUND (fig. 598).--The work represented in the engraving was made for a purse and copied from a beautiful piece of Arabian stuff.

Ganse turque D.M.C was used for the light background and Coton a broder D.M.C for the design. It is very easy to copy this pattern from the ill.u.s.tration by paying scrupulous attention to the number of knots; we do not therefore enter into any detailed description of the same, merely referring the worker to figs. 528 and 596 and the accompanying directions, for the adding on and the taking off of threads.

MACRAMe SQUARE (figs. 599 and 600).--Length of the single threads of both kinds: 200 c/m.

Knot upon a ring consisting of one thread: * 1 thread of white Cordonnet, 1 of Coton a broder colour 309, 1 of colour 358, 1 of colour 309 and repeat three times from *. (The embroidery cotton is to be taken double.)

Begin with the light red thread and make: 1 single chain with 3 changes of the threads, 1 single chain with the dark red thread with 4 changes of the threads. Add, or rather thread, 8 supplementary threads in succession on to the white thread, which in fig. 600, comes in the middle of the group of knots, and over each of these supplementary threads, make 2 double knots with the light red thread and 2 with the dark.

[Ill.u.s.tration: FIG. 599. MACRAMe SQUARE. MATERIALS: Cordonnet 6 fils D.M.C No. 15 and Coton a broder D.M.C No. 16 or Fil a dentelle D.M.C No.

25 and Coton a broder D.M.C No. 30.[A] COLOURS: White, Rouge-Grenat 309 and 358, or Gris-Lin 716 and Rouge-Maroquin 3327 and 3329.[A]]