Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 166, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1911 — FRENCH KNOTS COME [ARTICLE]

FRENCH KNOTS COME

Are Quite Taking Place of Fashionable Beading—How to Make Them. French knots are quite taking the place of the fashionable beading. The latest thing is to buy a voile or marquisette blouse pattern marked for beading, and to make a French knot instead at each place for a bead. The effect is soft and extremely pleasing. Most of us know how to make French, knots, but instructions to the others may not come amiss. Briefly, they are as follows: To make a French knot, draw the. needle through the upper side of the fabric. Hold it in the right hand and with the left hand take hold of the silk at a point near the fabric and twist it two or three times around the needle. Then put the point of the needle through the fabric again, very close to the point at which you brought It up; draw the twisted silk closely around It and push the needle through. Hold the twist tight against the goods with your left hand while you draw tbp length of silk throhgh, so as to keep It from uncoiling. When the silk has been drawn quite through, it holds the knot.