so many articles of house-linen, from ravelling. Second Hem-stitch (Fig. 2). —Prepare your hem as for Fig. 1, and workfrom left to right; with this dif-erence, that after drawing two orthree cross-threads together, fromright to left, you skip the samenumber of perpendicular threadsyou took up… … Fig. 2. Second Hemstitch. Ladder Stitch Hem (Fig. 3)Fig. 1, then draw out three orfive threads more, turn the Iwork round, and repeat the proc-ess, taking up the same clustersof threads which you took upin the first row of stitches, thusforming little perpendicularbars. Double Hem-stitch (Fig.4).…