and again
three in the next empty space. The third row is like the first.

[Illustration: FIG. 747. TWENTY-EIGHTH LACE STITCH.]

[Illustration: FIG. 748. TWENTY-NINTH LACE STITCH.]

TWENTY-NINTH LACE STITCH (fig. 748).--This stitch, known as Greek net
stitch, can be used instead of buttonhole bars for filling in large
surfaces.

Make bars from left to right, a little distance apart as in fig. 741,
leaving the loops between rather slack, so that when they have been
twice overcast by the returning thread, they may still be slightly
rounded. In the next row, you make the bar in the middle of the loop and
lift it up sufficiently with the needle, for the threads to form a
hexagon like a net mesh.

[Illustration: FIG. 749. THIRTIETH LACE STITCH.]

THIRTIETH LACE STITCH (fig. 749). After a row of pairs of buttonhole
stitches set closely together, with long loops between, as long as the
space between the pairs, throw the thread across in a line with the
extremities of the loops, fasten it to the edge of the braid and make
pairs of buttonhole stitches, as in the first row above it.

The loops must be perfectly regular, to facilitate which, guide lines
may be traced across the pattern, and pins stuck in as shown in the
figure, round which to carry the thread.

[Illustration: FIG. 750. THIRTY-FIRST LACE STITCH.]

THIRTY-FIRST LACE STITCH (fig. 750).--At first sight this stitch looks
very much like the preceding one, but it differs entirely from it in the
way in which the threads are knotted. You pass the needle under the loop
and the laid thread, then stick in the pin at the right distance for
making the long loop, bring the thread round behind the pin, make a loop
round the point of the needle, as shows in the engraving, and pull up
the knot.

[Illustration: FIG. 751. THIRTY-SECOND LACE STITCH.]

THIRTY-SECOND LACE STITCH (fig. 751).--To introduce a greater variety
into lace stitches, netting can also be imitated with the needle. You
begin with a loop in the corner of a square and work in diagonal lines.
The loops are secured by means of the same stitch shown in fig. 750, and
the regularity of the loops ensured, as it is there, by making them
round a pin, stuck in at the proper distance. The squares or meshes must
be made with the greatest accuracy; that being the case, most of the
stitches described in the preceding chapter can be worked upon them, and
the smallest spaces can be filled with delicate embroidery.

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