819. WORKING DETAIL OF FIG. 818.]

[Illustration: FIG. 820. RETICELLA LACE. MATERIALS--For the open-work:
Cordonnet 6 fils D.M.C Nos. 10 to 100, or Fil a dentelle D.M.C Nos. 25
to 150, white or ecru. For the bars: Lacets superfins D.M.C Nos. 3 to
8.[A]]

LACE IN KNOTTED STITCH (figs. 818 and 819).--This charming little
lace, which is of Italian origin, was taken from a cushion cover, used
for church purposes. The stitches, made in the order indicated in the
working detail, fig. 819, are overcast at the last with a fleecy thread,
such as Coton a repriser D.M.C, of a rather sober colour, such for
instance as Bleu-Indigo 334, Rouge-Geranium 352, or Jaune-Rouille 363.

You overcast the slanting bars and pass over the stitches that connect
the two picots.

[Illustration: FIG. 821. WORKING DETAIL OF FIG. 820.]

RETICELLA LACE (figs. 820 and 821).--The Reticella laces are generally
made on a design traced upon parchment, similar to those required for
the laces described later on. But as the manner of working has been
modified in the lace represented here, we thought it as well to adopt
the same simplification, often used in beautiful pieces of old
needlework, which consists in substituting a braid made upon a pillow,
for the bars made with the needle.

[Illustration: FIG. 822. VENETIAN LACE.]

[Illustration: FIG. 823. VENETIAN LACE.]

You begin by laying and fastening down the braid by means of very small
stitches upon the lines of the pattern, which should be traced upon
black paper; you next proceed to make the centre bars, covered with
plain buttonhole stitches, on which you mount a row of stitches, like
those of fig. 755; these are followed by another bar, to make which, you
pick up the loop of the stitches of the preceding row and by another row
like the second, finished off with picots, like those illustrated in
fig. 700. The bases of the pyramids likewise consist of bars,
buttonholed on both sides and edged on the inside with picots.

The stitches of the first row should not be too close together, that
there may be room for those of the second row between, as we have
already explained in fig. 702, in the chapter on Irish lace.

The inside of the pyramids is worked in the stitch represented in fig.
755, the picots round them are like the ones in fig. 599.

[Illustration: FIG. 824. VENETIAN LACE.]

[Illustration: FIG. 825. VENETIAN LACE.]

The lace, represented in fig. 820 in its original size, was worked i