Fig. 190. Six ways of making dots.
Venetian embroidery (fig. [191]).—Scallops, worked in very high relief, called Venetian embroidery, are an imitation on stuff of Venetian lace.
Real Venetian point is entirely needle-made; in the embroidered imitations of it, the stuff takes the place of the needle-made lace foundation. To make it more like the original however, the ground is seldom left plain, but is covered with fancy stitches, such as are represented in the illustration, or with one or other of the damask stitches in figs. [146] to [170]. The button-hole bars may be made with or without picots. A full description of the latter will be found in the chapters on [net embroidery], and [Irish lace]. The space to be button-holed, must be well padded, for thereon depends the roundness of the embroidery. For this purpose take 6 or 8 threads of Coton à repriser D.M.C No. 25,[A] and fasten them down on to the pattern with loose stitches, laying on extra threads, and cutting them gradually away, according to the width the line is to be. The stuff underneath the bars should only be cut away when the embroidery is quite finished.
Fig. 191. Venetian embroidery.
Renaissance embroidery (figs. [192] and [193]).—This is the term applied, more especially in France, to embroidery patterns, which are worked entirely in button-holing, and connected by button-hole bars without picots, as shewn in the two accompanying figures. The outside edge in fig. [193], is embellished with picots, described in the chapters just referred to.
