The work may be simplified by sewing Soutache D.M.C or Lacet superfin D.M.C along the straight lines instead of embroidering them in basket stitch.
Fig. 873. Border in different kinds of stitches.
Materials—For the old German knotted stitch: Cordonnet 6 fils D.M.C No. 2, écru—For the basket stitch: Coton à tricoter D.M.C No. 16, Bleu-Indigo 312—For the Gobelin stitches: Coton à broder D.M.C No. 20, Rouge-Turc 321—For the lace stitches: Fil à dentelle D.M.C No. 40, white.
Roumanian stitch (figs. [874], [875]).—This consists of stitches that are worked in the width of the stuff, intersected by back-stitches set slightly slanting.
Though the engraving is so clear as to render it hardly necessary, we subjoin an exact description of the way the stitches run.
Bring out the needle on the left, 2 or 6 threads beyond the line your embroidery is to follow; with regard to the number of threads you take up, you must be guided by the quality of the stuff and the material you have selected: put the needle in on the right, the same distance in advance of the line as before and bring it out in the middle of the stitch; then passing the needle over the first stitch, put it in again one or two threads in advance of the point where it came out, and draw it out close to where the first stitch began.
The border, represented in fig. [875], is worked in great part in Roumanian stitch.