Third pattern (fig. [144]).—Though at first sight, this stitch is very like the Holbein or stroke stitch, it is very different in the execution. It is worked in two rows, to and fro; in the first, you make all the vertical stitches side by side in the width of the stuff, drawing your thread very tightly, in the second, coming back, you make the horizontal stitches in a straight line, at right angles to the first stitches. On the wrong side the stitches are crossed; they in thin stuffs, show through, and quite alter the appearance of the right side.
Fourth, pattern (fig. [145]).—In the first row, the thread is carried slanting upwards from right to left, over two threads, then downwards under two. Coming back, the stitches must be set the opposite way, so that four threads meet in one hole.
Fifth pattern (fig. [146]).—This is worked like fig. [145], only that the stitches must cover three threads each way. In the second row, you take up one thread on the right and two on the left, to form your stitches.
