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3—A filet-net curtain, showing a conventional border broken at regular 
intervals by little tree-like figures 
corners can not be buttonholed over, and unless this is done 
the squares can not be neatly finished. Draw two threads 
around each square and hemstitch on the wrong side, button- 
holing over the corners and trimming off the threads after 
the square is finished. 
Filet net forms the curtains shown in illustrations three 
and four. ‘This material is also inexpensive, costing from 
69 cents to $1.60 a yard, and varying in width from thirty- 
four to sixty inches. It can be bought in white or ecru, the 
latter being chosen for the curtains illustrated. 
Most of us have seen pieces of the darned net which was 
5— Curtain fabrics of irrergular weave such as this Sicilian tracery 
are artistic and also inexpensive 
HOMES AND GARDENS 
July, 
1909 
4—A running border which is easy to copy. The darning may be 
done in white or color 
such a popular type of embroidery in our grandmothers’ 
day, and these filet curtains make good use of this old- 
fashioned ’stitchery. Nothing could be more attractive than 
the conventional border, broken at regular intervals by the lit- 
tle tree-like figures, of the one curtain, or the simple running 
design, with the darning-needle in the corner, of the other. 
The inability to draw need not deter one from undertak- 
ing to work out an original design, for one has only to ex- 
periment with a bit of net and threaded needle to be con- 
vinced that an endless number of patterns will suggest them- 
selves after a few trials. 
6—Made of wood-brown pongee, the two-inch hem couched down 
with coarse embroidery silk 
