It is needless to repeat that the loops should all be knotted in a line, all be of the same length and all the same distance apart.
Fig. [768] represents the kind of needle-made picots which most resemble the machine-made ones, and fig. [769] show us the use of little scallops surmounted by picots, made in bullion stitch.
Fig. 768. Isolated needle-made picots.
One or two rows of lace stitch fig. [736], or the first rows of figs. [749], [750], can also be used in the place of picots.
Fig. 769. Button-hole picots with picots in bullion stitch.
Irish lace (fig. [770]).—English braids or those braids which are indicated at the foot of the engraving must be tacked down on to the pattern and gathered on the inside edge, wherever the lines are curved, as explained in fig. [693]; in cases however where only Lacet superfin D.M.C[A] is used, the needle should be slipped in underneath the outside threads, so that the thread with which you draw in the braid be hidden.
