n: FIG. 189. SIX LEAVES IN RAISED SATIN STITCH.]

Leaves and flowers of all descriptions, can be executed in any of these
stitches, and in different combinations of the same.

SIX WAYS OF MAKING DOTS (fig. 190).--Dots, when they are well made,
are exceedingly effective in white embroidery, particularly if they are
worked in a variety of stitches. Dot A is worked in raised satin stitch;
B, in raised satin stitch, framed in back stitch; C, in raised satin
stitch, framed in twisted knot stitch; D is composed of several post
stitches of different lengths, set in a frame of stem stitches; E is
worked in back-stitch, and F consists of a small eyelet hole, with a
corded setting, which forms the centre.

[Illustration: FIG. 190. SIX WAYS OF MAKING DOTS.]

VENETIAN EMBROIDERY (fig. 191).--Scallops, worked in very high relief,
called Venetian embroidery, are an imitation on stuff of Venetian lace.

Real Venetian point is entirely needle-made; in the embroidered
imitations of it, the stuff takes the place of the needle-made lace
foundation. To make it more like the original however, the ground is
seldom left plain, but is covered with fancy stitches, such as are
represented in the illustration, or with one or other of the damask
stitches in figs. 146 to 170. The button-hole bars may be made with or
without picots. A full description of the latter will be found in the
chapters on net embroidery, and Irish lace. The space to be buttonholed,
must be well padded, for thereon depends the roundness of the
embroidery. For this purpose take 6 or 8 threads of Coton a repriser
D.M.C No. 25,[A] and fasten them down on to the pattern with loose
stitches, laying on extra threads, and cutting them gradually away,
according to the width the line is to be. The stuff underneath the
bars should only be cut away when the embroidery is quite finished.

[Illustration: FIG. 191. VENETIAN EMBROIDERY.]

RENAISSANCE EMBROIDERY (figs. 192 and 193).--This is the term applied,
more especially in France, to embroidery patterns, which are worked
entirely in button-holing, and connected by button-hole bars without
picots, as shewn in the two accompanying figures. The outside edge in
fig. 193, is embellished with picots, described in the chapters just
referred to.

[Illustration: FIG. 192. RENAISSANCE EMBROIDERY.]

[Illustration: FIG. 193. RENAISSANCE EMBROIDERY.]

RICHELIEU EMBROIDERY (fig. 194).--The name given to embroidery of a
similar kind to the