This leaf, having a contour of chain stitch, is filled in at the top with a brown and blue branch in stem stitch, edged with short-and-long stitch. The green turnover is in chain stitch with blue chain stitch veins, and the blue turnovers at base of leaf are done in a lace surface stitch, while the rest is filled in with small darning stitches, coral stitches and a little bit of button-hole stitching. The three central leaves crossing stem are in red and green, and blue and green; the brown stalks are worked in stem stitch. Loops are worked round the outside of the leaf here as in all the bigger leaves on this work. The spike on the left of the sketch is in herring bone stitch edged with arrow heads. [Illustration: PLATE 10a] Op. V The following three plates are sketches from the bed hangings in the "Chapel" room at Hardwicke Hall, Derbyshire--the property of the Duke of Devonshire. PLATE 11 Shows the full design, which is a repeating one, of the hangings. The details of the stitchery will be found on the following plates. [Illustration: PLATE 11] PLATE 12 No. 1. One of the many conventional foliations in this design, carried out in stem stitch, buttonhole and darning. No. 2. Close chain stitch for the circles with herring bone for the stalk running through them. No. 3. The same stem as in foxgloves but with darning introduced up the centre. No. 4. The sheafs of the foxgloves are worked in crochet stitch edged stem stitch. The contours of flowers in back stitch, filled in short-and-long stitches and darning. [Illustration: PLATE 12] PLATE 13 No. 1. Contour in chain stitch. Vein stem stitch edged two rows short-and-long stitches and darning. No. 2. Contour in _double_ chain stitch. Veins in knot stitch edged darning. Loops in middle of centre vein. No. 3. Contour in stem stitch; vein ditto, edged with two rows of short-and-long stitches and darning. No. 4. Contour in chain stitch, edged darning. Centre vein chain stitch. Branching veins knot stitch outlined with darning stitches. No. 5. Contour buttonhole stitch and darning. Veins knot stitch and darning. [Illustration: PLATE 13] Op. Va PLATE 14 A group of fillings in which darning plays an important part, the backgrounds of two of the leaves were carried out in indigo, the veinings were worked in solid rows of outline stitch in brown shading to a lighter bronze green, the central vein in the upper leaf was in chain-stitch in dark blue and the outline of leaf was carried out in two rows of chain stitching in darkest indigo. The shamrock leaf has a darned contour of double threads, the filling was in stem stitch, solid, with bars of a darker colour worked across it. The little band at the bottom of the group was a mixture of satin, chain, stem and French knots. [Illustration: PLATE 14] Op. VI The following sketch was done from bed hangings, the property of the Earl of Powis, at Powis Castle. PLATE 15