Dotted Venetian Bars (No. 17.)—To make these bars, pass the thread across the space two or three times, and make four button-hole stitches on the bar thus formed; put a needle in the fourth, and draw it out until it will allow of three or four button-hole stitches being worked on it; continue the bar in the same way.
English Bars (No. 18) are used to connect two lines of edging. Pass the needle backwards and forwards between two opposite stitches four times each way, always putting the needle in the under side of the edge. Sometimes these bars are radiated, by missing a stitch more on one side than on the other.
The marked characteristic of Spanish Point (No. 19) is a kind of heavy satin stitch, with which parts are ornamented. It is very much raised, and afterwards worked in button-hole stitch with fine linen Mecklenburgh thread.
Continuous rows of Sorrento edges worked backwards and forwards, like Brussels Lace, form a variety represented in a corner of the Engraving.
The lower line of edging in the Engraving is termed Little Venetian. It is worked like the other, but with only one button-hole stitch.
When, by means of these different stitches, the pattern is formed into a solid mass of work, the stitches at the back are to be cut, to detach the lace from the paper; the threads may then be picked out and the article is complete.
To join point lace on to cambric or muslin, make an extremely narrow hem on either, and lay the inner line of braiding on that. Join them together by running on the middle of the braid through the cambric, and then working a line of Brussels edge on to the inner part of the braid, taking every stitch through both substances.
CROCHET COLLAR
[Fig. 1.]
Materials.—Cotton, No. 30. Crotchet hook, No. 22; eagle card-board gauge.
Chain of 180 stitches, on which work a row of dc.