one;
the bars of the netting must not be cut away until the edge be finished.

CUT WORK IN EMBROIDERED NETTING (fig. 663).--Cut work here means half
covering the bars of the netting with button-hole stitches and half
cutting them away with scissors. The inner bars are frequently
ornamented with a double buttonhole edging and knotted picots, see figs.
698 and 699 in the next chapter. You slightly separate the stitches of
the first row of buttonholing so as to be able to introduce the thread
of the second row between them.

[Illustration: FIG. 663. CUT WORK IN EMBROIDERED NETTING.]

[Illustration: FIG. 664. STRAIGHT LOOP STITCH.]

STRAIGHT LOOP STITCH (fig. 664).--In the first row you carry the
thread over one bar and slip it through behind a knot; in the second you
do the same thing, only that above, your needle will pass under 3
threads, two of them the threads of the loop of the first row and the
third a bar of the net. In every square 4 threads cross each other.

[Illustration: FIG. 665. WAVED STITCH.]

WAVED STITCH (fig. 665).--This stitch, which forms a close waved
ground, is produced by passing the thread in each row of the netting
over a square and behind a knot. When the pattern admits of it, as it
mostly does, a considerably thicker thread is used for this stitch and
for the stitches represented in figs. 667, 668, 669 and 670, than that
in which the netting is made. When the netted ground is of Fil a
dentelle D.M.C No. 50,[A] the embroidery upon it may very well be done
in Cordonnet 6 fils. D.M.C No. 10[A], or Fil a pointer D.M.C No. 30.[A]

INTERSECTED LOOP STITCH (fig. 666).--Begin by covering the whole
surface to be embroidered with plain loop stitches, then stretch threads
diagonally across the squares of the netting and the loop stitches; one
set of threads running over the stitches and under the knots of the
netting, the other under the first and second threads of the loop
stitches and over the first crossed threads and the knots.

The laying and stretching of these threads must, it is hardly necessary
to say, be systematically and regularly done.

[Illustration: FIG. 666. INTERSECTED LOOP STITCH.]

GROUND WORKED IN HORIZONTAL LINES (fig. 667).--Make half cross
stitches over 4 squares of netting, by passing the thread alternately
over and under 3 knots, and under 3 squares of the netting. In the
second row, cross the threads over those of the first row, as is shown
in our engraving.

GROUND WO