--After fastening in your thread,
lay it over four single or two double threads, as the case may be, and
carry the needle through to the left, under one double thread; then, as
fig. 274 shows, bring it back over the first stitch, put it in by the
side of it, and bring it out below, under half the horizontal threads
covered by the first stitch. Then make a stitch to the right, similar to
the one just made to the left.

[Illustration: FIG. 274. ROCOCO STITCH. FIRST STITCHES ON THE WRONG
SIDE.]

When you have finished one stitch, carry the needle under one thread, in
an oblique line, to the next stitch, see fig. 273. The whole pattern is
worked in diagonal lines.

[Illustration: FIG. 275. ROCOCO STITCH. STITCHES ON THE RIGHT SIDE.]

[Illustration: FIG. 276. ROCOCO STITCH. COMPLETED.]

PARISIAN STITCH (fig. 277).--This stitch, though it is generally
worked on silk canvas, can also be worked on the different cotton and
linen materials already referred to more than once in this Encyclopedia.
It makes a very good grounding in cases where the material is not
intended to be completely hidden. It consists of a long stitch over
three threads, and a short stitch over one thread, alternately.

[Illustration: FIG. 277. PARISIAN STITCH.]

GREEK STITCH (fig. 278).--This differs from the ordinary cross stitch,
in the oblique inclination given to the threads, and the manner in which
it is begun. Instead of taking up the two threads that follow the first
stitch, you bring your needle back from right to left, under the
vertical threads of the first stitch, carry it downwards, and then from
right to left, to a distance of four threads beyond the first stitch.
The next stitch is made like the first. The rows may be joined together,
either by the short or the long stitches, but you must follow one rule
throughout. This stitch is much used in Slavonic countries, for the
adornment of linen garments, and there we have observed that the short
stitches are generally made to encounter the long ones. A coarse
material that covers the ground well, such as, Coton a tricoter D.M.C
Nos. 6 to 12, is the best one to use for this stitch.

[Illustration: FIG. 278. GREEK STITCH.]

SCOTCH STITCH (fig. 279).--Squares, composed of slanting stitches,
made over one, three, five, three threads respectively, and then again
over one thread, and separated from each other by rows of Gobelin
stitches, constitute what is ordinarily known by the name of Scotch