Fig. 756. Thirty-seventh lace stitch.
Fig. 757. Thirty-eighth lace stitch.
Thirty-eighth lace stitch (fig. [757]).—Plain net stitch being quicker to do than any other, one is tempted to use it more frequently; but as it is a little monotonous some openwork ornament upon it is a great improvement; such for instance as small button-holed rings, worked all over the ground at regular intervals. Here again, as in the preceding figure the rings must be made independently of each other.
Thirty-ninth lace stitch (fig. [758]).—Corded bars, branching out into other bars, worked in overcasting stitches, may also serve as a lace ground.
You lay five or six threads, according to the course the bars are to take; you overcast the branches up to the point of their junction with the principal line, thence you throw across the foundation threads for another branch, so that having reached a given point and coming back to finish the threads left uncovered in going, you will often have from six to eight short lengths of thread to overcast.
Overcasting stitches are always worked from right to left.