Fig. 95. Filling in the corner with a spider, and continuation of the lattice-work thence.
Cut open-work (Punto tagliato).—For cut open-work, threads have to be drawn out both ways, the number of course to depend on the pattern. Threads, left between others that have been cut out, serve as a foundation on which a great variety of stitches can be worked. Stuffs, equally coarse in the warp and woof, should be chosen for all cut open-work, for then the empty spaces that remain, where threads have been drawn out both ways, will be perfectly square.
Drawing out threads both ways (fig. [96]).—The same number of threads must be drawn out each way; most patterns require the same number of threads to be left as are drawn out. In fig. [96], three threads have been drawn out and three left.
Fig. 96. Drawing out threads both ways, without regard to the edges.
Cutting out threads (fig. [97]).—We often meet with cut open-work patterns, set in another kind of embroidery. In such cases, the threads that are to be cut out, must be cut a few millimetres within the edge, and then drawn out, so that there may be a frame of the stuff left intact outside.
Fig. 97. Cutting out threads, in the middle of the stuff.
Button-holing the raw edges (fig. [98]).—In very fine linen textures, the threads can simply be cut out, but in the case of coarser stuffs, and when a pattern ends in steps as in figs. [103], [104], [105], the raw edges must be button-holed as in fig. [98], or [99].