Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 114, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1913 — MAKE FILET LACE AT HOME [ARTICLE]

MAKE FILET LACE AT HOME

Few Materials and Little Skin Needed for the Construction of This Most Effective Trimming.

"Filet lace is undoubtedly the fashion, and deservedly so, for it ie one of tjie most effective of all laces,” say® an article in Harper’s Bazar. “With a little patience and the expenditure of a very small amount of time every woman, even she who ’never could! learn to sew,’ can have lovely filet, for it is very easy to make. "For making filet lace the only tools needed are a good linen thread, a frame on which to stretch' the net, and a dull needle. I always buy my ground net, for, though not difficult to make, it is tedious work. It ie simply a miniature fish or tennis net. The only dis« Acuity is to keep the distances be* tween the knots even, but this soon, comes with practice. However, when perfect handmade net can be bought for very little abroad, it hardly eeen» worth while to make IL I send to the Galerie Lafayette, in Paris, for what I use. Net four inches wide costs only 65 cents a meter, and squares suitable for setting in linen cost from five cents each up, according to the size. In the department stores in New York filet lace four inches wide with a mediocre design costs from four to six dollar® a yard. When one can easily make it with a beautiful design for a'few cent® a yard it seems a waste not to do so.**