To fasten off the thread it is simply run through the stitches already done and cut off close.
To work the larger part of the pattern, threads are drawn to the depth of one inch (see _A_, on Illustration IV., which is very much enlarged to show the method of work). This will be for a row of half medallions. A very fine needle and No. 100 or 120 cotton is used to collect the strands into a series of upright bars (_B_), by twisting the fine cotton over each group of four (or an eighth part of the threads which each medallion takes to do). It should be twisted round and round fairly tightly, from one end to the other, and a few stitches into the linen will help to keep them apart at each end. When this is done, another inch may be drawn, leaving a few threads of the linen intact between the two halves of the medallion, _D_.
[Illustration: Fig. II.—Border for Fair Linen Cloth, suitable for working all in white—in the same style as No. VI]
[Illustration: Fig. III.—Strong Drawn-thread work in blue and white thread, suitable for border of Fair Linen Cloth]
The dotted lines at _E_ show how the bars are pulled apart on the one hand and drawn together on the other by the darning forming the pattern, the bars thus connecting the whole of the medallions throughout the work. _F_ shows one of the latter being worked from the centre. It is begun by darning eight bars regularly backwards and forwards about four times. Then the two middle bars are left and one side is darned over only three bars, to finish the first ‘step,’ and to leave the little window-like opening, _H_, then over two bars only to finish the ‘window,’ and begin the second step. At _J_ it goes right across six bars once, when returning to the centre it goes down the two that were left till it arrives near _F_ again, and the other side is begun in steps like the first. At _J_ it goes right across six again and keeps on till the second step is finished, which is where the needle has got to in the sketch. The second step is about half the depth of the first. The third is the same depth as the second, but is darned over four bars. This leaves two to be finished last, and these two are darned over till the undrawn strip of linen is reached and the half medallion is finished. The other half is exactly the same, only reversed. The thread should be worked fairly tight throughout.