All patterns that are drawn on checked paper can be copied in macramé 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.
[Illustration: 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 tassels, 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 TASSELS (fig. 597).—As this kind of fringe is chiefly used for trimming carpets, curtains and furniture, it is best to make it in the coarsest numbers of the materials indicated at the foot of the engraving.
[Illustration: FIG. 597. FRINGE WITH THREE ROWS OF TASSELS. MATERIALS: Cordonnet 6 fils D.M.C Nos. 3 to 30, or Fil à pointer D.M.C Nos. 10 to 30[A]. COLOURS: Bleu-Indigo 312 and écru.]
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 tassels 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.