stitch.

[Illustration: FIG. 279. SCOTCH STITCH.]

MOORISH STITCH (fig. 280).--For this stitch, instead of surrounding
squares of stitches, made in the way we have just described, with
Gobelin stitch, the squares are made to touch, rising like steps one
above the other, and bordered only at the sides by Gobelin stitch.

[Illustration: FIG. 280. MOORISH STITCH.]

ORIENTAL STITCH (fig. 281).--Here, you make four diagonal stitches
over one, two, three and four double threads respectively; which four
stitches form so many triangles, one above the other. The empty spaces
between are filled up with Gobelin stitches covering two threads.

[Illustration: FIG. 281. ORIENTAL STITCH.]

SHELL STITCH (fig. 282).--Carry your thread upwards over six
horizontal threads, then from right to left, under one vertical thread
and downwards over six horizontal ones. When you have made four vertical
stitches in this way, bring the needle out behind the third double
thread, counted lengthways, and between the third and fourth, counted
across, and fasten the four long stitches together with a back-stitch,
to the middle thread of the canvas. Draw a thread of a different colour
twice through these back-stitches, so as to form small knots like
shells, and then fill in the ground between the rows of long stitches,
with back-stitches.

[Illustration: FIG. 282. SHELL STITCH.]

JACQUARD STITCH (fig. 283).--If you have a large plain surface to
cover, you should choose a stitch that forms a pattern in itself.
Jacquard stitch and others which we shall describe later on, will be
found to produce the effect of brocaded stuff. To work Jacquard stitch,
make six stitches underneath one another, over two double threads, and
six by the side of one another, from left to right, over two double
threads. The second row consists of the same number of stitches,
similarly worked downwards and to the side, but over one double thread
only.

[Illustration: FIG. 283. JACQUARD STITCH.]

BYZANTINE STITCH (fig. 284).--Here, you make the same number of
stitches as in the preceding figure but with this difference, that the
two rows of stitches are made either over two, or four threads.

[Illustration: FIG. 284. BYZANTINE STITCH.]

MILANESE STITCH (fig. 285).--In the first row, the back-stitch is made
alternately, first over four diagonal crosses and then over one; in the
second row, over three and two; in the third, over two and three, in the
fourth, over one an