Insertion of single button-hole stitches (figs. [707] and [708]).—Make very loose button-hole stitches along both edges of the braid, all the same size and the same distance apart, and vertically, opposite to each other.
Fig. 707. Insertion of single button-hole stitches.
Fig. 708. Insertion of plain button-hole stitches.
When these two rows are finished, pick up each loop with Russian stitch, either single, fig. [704], or twisted, fig. [705]. Fig. [708] shows the double Russian stitch made in each loop; it may be trebled or quadrupled, according to whether you wish your insertion to be very transparent or not.
Insertion with bead stitches (fig. [709]).—Join the opposite rows of loops together by four stitches. The threads of these stitches must lie quite flat, side by side, and not one on the top of the other. After the fourth stitch, you wind the thread round the bottom loop and then carry it on to the next, whence you repeat the four stitches as above.
