Eighteenth lace stitch (fig. [737]).—This is the first of a series of lace stitches, often met with in old Venetian lace, and which can therefore with perfect right be called, Venetian stitches.
Owing to the manner and order in which the rows of stitches are connected and placed above one another, they form less transparent grounds than those we have hitherto described.
In these grounds you begin by making the row of loops, then you throw a thread across on the same level and in coming back, pass the needle through the row of loops under the thread stretched across, and under the stitch of the previous row.
Nineteenth lace stitch (fig. [738]).—The close stitch here represented is more common in Venetian lace than the loose stitch given in fig. [737].
Fig. 738. Nineteenth lace stitch.
Fig. 739. Twentieth lace stitch.