Plain Russian stitch (fig. [704]).—Stitches of all kinds can be used, as well as bars, for joining braids together that run parallel to each other, and for filling up the spaces between. These stitches, which serve as an insertion, are some of them very elementary, whilst others require great skill and patience to execute.
The simplest of all is the Russian stitch, which bears a great resemblance to the crossed stitch, shown in fig. [39], and the crossed back-stitch, fig. [176].
You pass the needle from left to right, under the edge of the braid, then again from right to left under the opposite edge, taking care always to leave the thread in front of the needle.
Twisted Russian stitch (fig. [705]).—Instead of passing the needle behind the thread, pass it before it and round it, so that the needle always comes out again beneath the thread, which will then be twice twisted.
Fig. 705. Twisted russian stitch.
Fig. 706. Column stitch.
Column Stitch (fig. [706]).—At the bottom, the stitch is made like the plain Russian stitch, and at the top, like the one in fig. [705], with the difference that the second thread is passed three times round the first.