that you put the
needle in between the two threads of the buttonhole stitch, instead of
through the loops.

[Illustration: FIG. 732. THIRTEENTH LACE STITCH.]

THIRTEENTH LACE STITCH (fig. 732).--The stitch here represented, as
well as the two next ones are looped from left to right and then again
from right to left.

As it is more unusual to make the loops from left to right than the
reverse way, the proper position of the needle and the course of the
thread are shown in the illustrations.

Fig. 732 requires, in the first place, two buttonhole stitches very
close together in the edge of the braid, then a third stitch covering
the two first stitches and set quite close to them; the connecting
thread between these stitches must be tightly stretched so as to lie
almost vertically, that the stitches may form straight lines.

[Illustration: FIG. 733. FOURTEENTH LACE STITCH.]

FOURTEENTH LACE STITCH (fig. 733).--This begins, likewise, with two
buttonhole stitches, above which you make two buttonhole stitches
instead of one, as in fig. 732, producing an open ground with vertical
bars.

[Illustration: FIG. 734. FIFTEENTH LACE STITCH.]

FIFTEENTH LACE STITCH (fig. 734).--This resembles the two foregoing
stitches and consists of three buttonhole stitches, made over the edge
of the braid or the intermediate bars, and joined together afterwards
under one transverse stitch.

[Illustration: FIG. 735. SIXTEENTH LACE STITCH.]

SIXTEENTH LACE STITCH (fig. 735).--You begin this by a row of net
stitches worked from right to left, or as the engraving shows, by a row
of stitches called "seed stitches".

[Illustration: FIG. 736. SEVENTEENTH LACE STITCH.]

The second row, worked from left to right, consists of short bars, set
slanting and shaped like a seed, and made the same way as the picot in
fig. 699. The first stitch is carried through the loop of the row below,
the second over both threads and far enough from the loop to leave room
for three other stitches. The first of the four buttonhole stitches of
the next group must be set quite close to the last.

SEVENTEENTH LACE STITCH (fig. 786).--Here we have the same pattern as
the preceding one without the row of net stitches; the engraving shows
us at the same time, the proper direction of the needle and thread for
the row that is worked from right to left.

[Illustration: FIG. 737. EIGHTEENTH LACE STITCH.]

EIGHTEENTH LACE STITCH (fig. 737).--This is the first of a seri