NETTING FOR COLLARS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 14, 1 February 1937, Page 5

NETTING FOR COLLARS

Netting is coming into clothes, and not only in the form of a chenille net for the back hair (states a London writer). This has gone out somewhat, and the present netting is that once done by great-grandmotiiers who made it into mata or curtains, as the fancy took them. Jabots are made of netting; so are collars and cuffs. There is, of course, only the one stitch in netting, but this can be elaborated, by differences in sizes, by shaping into vandykes, and by darning. The use of different thieknesses in the thread also makes a cTifference. Many men know the knot, which is com^>licated at first, bqt once Iearnt " opens up the whole field. The tools are merely a netting needle and meshes of different sizes. Pencils, knitting needles, or rulers will serve for the latter, according to the size required. There remain to-day prettily embroidered "stirrups" with whdch grandmother used to hold her thread taut. The modern netter mostly takes a loop of thread. On this sbe puts her stitches, which for a jabot or collar must be a good many. Pencil size is a good one for collars, and at the end it can be finished off by vandyking, which simply means leaving a stitch at the end of each row. Netting is lighit and becoming to the face, and, if starched, it makes tbe sort of iuff that was used for hamfrills.