We have retained the familiar term, white embroidery, for this kind of needlework, for convenience sake, in spite of its inaccuracy, w that coloured materials are quite as much used for it as white. It is executed, either on a backing of oil-cloth, or in an embroidery frame, called tambour-frame. Only skilful workers can dispense with these, for an untrained hand can hardly avoid puckering. If you work without a foundation, the material must be held, quite smoothly over the forefinger, so that the threads lie perfectly straight, otherwise, the pattern is very apt to get pulled out of shape in the working. With your three other fingers you hold the material fast, the thumb resting on the work itself, beyond the outline of the pattern, which must be turned towards the worker. It is always the outside line of a pattern that is drawn in double lines, that should be turned towards the palm of the hand.