RKED IN STITCHES PLACED ONE ABOVE THE OTHER (fig.
668).--Cover a whole row of squares with cross stitches and leave 3 rows
of squares empty. When you have a sufficient number of rows of cross
stitches, take a long needle and pass it upwards from below, and from
right to left, under the two bars of the third upper square; then pass
downwards to the first square of the 3 bottom rows and under the bars
from right to left, so as again to leave 3 squares between the fresh
stitches. The next row of stitches is made in the same manner, so that
the stitches are not only set contrary ways but reciprocally cover each
other.

LATTICED GROUND (fig. 669).--Begin by running the thread, to and fro,
under two vertical bars and over three horizontal ones. When the ground
is entirely covered, carry your thread from right to left, under the
bars over which the first rows of threads are crossed; then take it over
the long crosses, that correspond to 5 squares of netting, and pass it
in the same line under the bars of the netting. In coming back, the long
stitches cross each other over the stitches of the first rows.

[Illustration: FIG. 667. GROUND WORKED IN HORIZONTAL LINES.]

[Illustration: FIG. 668. GROUND WORKED IN STITCHES PLACED ONE ABOVE THE
OTHER.]

[Illustration: FIG. 669. LATTICED GROUND.]

[Illustration: FIG. 670. GROUND WORKED IN RUSSIAN STITCH.]

GROUND WORKED IN RUSSIAN STITCH (fig. 670).--Pass the thread from left
to right, under a bar of the netting, carry it downwards over 4 squares
and pass it again, from left to right, under the bar, then upwards,
again over 4 squares of netting and so on. The stitches of the next rows
are made in the same manner; you have only to see that the loops formed
by the stitches all come on the same line of knots.

GROUND WORKED IN TWO SIZES OF THREAD (fig. 671).--Herewith begins the
series of stitches, referred to at the beginning of the chapter, copied
in part from one of the oldest and most curious pieces of embroidered
netting we have ever met with. The copies were worked with Cordonnet 6
fils D.M.C No. 25 and ecru Fil a dentelle D.M.C No. 70[A]; the former
being used for the darning and the almond-shaped stitches between; the
latter for the buttonhole stitches. Wherever two sizes of thread are
used for one pattern, all the stitches in the coarse thread should be
put in first and those in the fine, last.

[Illustration: FIG. 671. GROUND WORKED IN TWO SIZES OF THREAD.]

GROUND WITH