te.
Work the picots in a different colour from the cluster, and the
rosettes, likewise, in two colours. The connecting loops between the
figures should be made as you go along, the thread being always carried
back into the loop just made.

[Illustration: FIG. 91. OPEN-WORK WITH WINDING STITCH.]

CUTTING OUT THREADS AT THE CORNERS (figs. 92, 93, 94, 95). If you want
to carry a latticed-hem or a simple open-work pattern, round a corner,
you must cut and loosen the threads, on both sides, about one c/m. from
the edge of the hem, as seen in fig. 92. The loose threads can be pushed
into the turning, and the edge button-holed, as in fig. 93.

If however, on the other hand, the stitching be continued without
interruption, as indicated in the upper part of fig. 94, the loose
threads must be brought to the wrong side, and as represented in the
lower part of fig. 94, fastened down with a few stitches.

[Illustration: FIG. 92. THE CUTTING AND LOOSENING OF THE THREADS AT THE
CORNERS.]

[Illustration: FIG. 93. THE OVER CASTING OF THE DISENGAGED EDGE AT THE
CORNER, THE THREADS BEING TURNED IN WITHIN THE HEM.]

[Illustration: FIG. 94. BORDERING THE DISENGAGED EDGE WITH
HEM-STITCHING, THE THREADS BEING TURNED OVER]

[Illustration: FIG. 95. FILLING IN THE CORNER WITH A SPIDER, AND
CONTINUATION OF THE LATTICE-WORK THENCE.]

CUT OPEN-WORK (PUNTO TAGLIATO).--For cut open-work, threads have to be
drawn out both ways, the number of course to depend on the pattern.
Threads, left between others that have been cut out, serve as a
foundation on which a great variety of stitches can be worked. Stuffs,
equally coarse in the warp and woof, should be chosen for all cut
open-work, for then the empty spaces that remain, where threads have
been drawn out both ways, will be perfectly square.

DRAWING OUT THREADS BOTH WAYS (fig. 96).--The same number of threads
must be drawn out each way; most patterns require the same number of
threads to be left as are drawn out. In fig. 96, three threads have been
drawn out and three left.

[Illustration: FIG. 96. DRAWING OUT THREADS BOTH WAYS, WITHOUT REGARD TO
THE EDGES.]

CUTTING OUT THREADS (fig. 97).--We often meet with cut open-work
patterns, set in another kind of embroidery. In such cases, the threads
that are to be cut out, must be cut a few millimetres within the edge,
and then drawn out, so that there may be a frame of the stuff left
intact outside.

[Illustration: FIG. 97. CUTTING OUT THREA