correspond with the furniture. Green looks very handsome with gold,
and scarlet with silver. The metal thread used must be of the very
best description only.

Begin by making six gold flowers, thus:--26 ch., close in 19th for a
round, X 7 ch., s.c. under loop, X twice, 7 ch., slip on the closing of
the round--thus there are three loops in the centre one; work
under the chain of the first, 1 s.c., 1 d.c., 6 t.c., 1 d.c., 1
s.c. Under the centre one 1 s.c., 1 d.c., 9 t.c., 1 d.c., 1 s.c.; and
the third loop like the first. Slip on the base of the flower, and
work down the 19 ch. in s.c.

[Illustration: HAND SCREEN.]

Six of these flowers are to be made, and afterwards sewed on the silk,
radiating from the centre, and each occupying the middle of one side
of the hexagon.

FOR THE SCREEN (beginning in the centre).--With the blue silk, make a
chain of six, and close into a round.

1st: X 1 d.c., 5 ch., miss none, X 6 times.

2nd: X 5 t.c. on 5 ch., 5 ch., miss 1 d.c., X 6 times.

3rd: X 7 t.c. (beginning on the last of 5 ch.), 5 ch., X 6 times.

Continue in this manner, increasing the t.c. stitches by 2 at each
section of the hexagon, in every round, until there are 33 t.c. in
each division, always making 5 chain between. Then s.c. all round,