HIRTY-THIRD LACE STITCH (fig. 752).--This stitch is frequently met
with in the oldest Irish lace, especially in the kind where the braids
are joined together by fillings not bars. At first sight, it looks
merely like a close net stitch, the ground and filling all alike, so
uniform is it in appearance, but on a closer observation it will be
found to be quite a different stitch from any of those we have been
describing.

The first stitch is made like a plain net stitch, the second consists of
a knot that ties up the loop of the first stitch. Fillings of this kind
must be worked as compactly as possible, so that hardly any spaces are
visible between the individual rows.

[Illustration: FIG. 752. THIRTY-THIRD LACE STITCH.]

[Illustration: FIG. 753. THIRTY-FOURTH LACE STITCH.]

THIRTY-FOURTH LACE STITCH (fig. 753).--To fill in a surface with this
stitch, known as the wheel or spider stitch, begin by laying double
diagonal threads to and fro, at regular distances apart, so that they
lie side by side and are not twisted. When the whole surface is covered
with these double threads, throw a second similar series across them,
the opposite way. The return thread, in making this second layer, must
be conducted under the double threads of the first layer and over the
single thread just laid, and wound two or three times round them,
thereby forming little wheels or spiders, like those already described
in the preceding chapter in figs. 653 and 654.

THIRTY-FIFTH LACE STITCH (fig. 754).--Begin by making a very regular
netted foundation, but without knots, where the two layers of threads
intersect each other.

Then, make a third layer of diagonal threads across the two first
layers, so that all meet at the same points of intersection, thus
forming six rays divergent from one centre. With the fourth and last
thread, which forms the seventh and eighth ray, you make the wheel over
seven threads, then slip the needle under it and carry it on to the
point for the next wheel.

[Illustration: FIG. 754. THIRTY-FIFTH LACE STITCH.]

[Illustration: FIG. 755. THIRTY-SIXTH LACE STITCH.]

THIRTY-SIXTH LACE STITCH (fig. 755).--After covering all the surface
to be embroidered, with threads stretched in horizontal lines, you cover
them with loops going from one to the other and joining themselves in
the subsequent row to the preceding loops.

The needle will thus have to pass underneath two threads. Then cover
this needle-made canvas with c