Fig. 660. Linen stitch set with cord stitch.
Flower in dot stitch on a foundation of linen stitch (fig. [661]).—With the help of this stitch, which is described in the chapter on white embroidery and represented in fig. [179], a great variety of little supplementary ornaments can be made, on every description of netted ground.
Fig. 661. Flower in dot stitch on a foundation of linen stitch.
Bordering in button-hole stitch (fig. [662]).—Scalloped edges in netting should be button-holed; 2 or 3 padding threads should be run in first, following the bars of the netting, over which the button-holing is done; the bars of the netting must not be cut away until the edge be finished.
Fig. 662. Bordering in button-hole stitch.
Cut work in embroidered netting (fig. [663]).—Cut work here means half covering the bars of the netting with button-hole stitches and half cutting them away with scissors. The inner bars are frequently ornamented with a double button-hole edging and knotted picots, see figs. [698] and [699] in the next chapter. You slightly separate the stitches of the first row of button-holing so as to be able to introduce the thread of the second row between them.
