[Illustration:  467.—­Bars of Point d’Angleterre.]

No. 468.—­POINT DE VENISE BARS (EDGED).—­Begin at the right hand and stretch a line of thread to the left side of the braid, fastening it with one tight stitch of point de Bruxelles.  Upon this line work a succession of tight point de Bruxelles stitches.  In every third stitch work one point de Venise stitch.

[Illustration:  468.—­Point de Venise Bars (Edged).]

No. 469.—­We now come to the most important feature of BARS—­the dot, picot, or purl, for by all these names it is known.  This dot is worked in various ways upon different lace bars.  Dotted point de Venise bars are worked as follow:—­

[Illustration:  469.—­Dotted Point de Venise Bars.]

Stretch the thread from right to left, on this work five tight stitches of point de Bruxelles, then insert a pin in this last stitch to hold it open and loose, pass the needle under the loose stitch and over the thread, as clearly shown in illustration No. 469, and in this loop work three tight point de Bruxelles stitches.  Then work five more stitches, and repeat to end of row.

[Illustration:  470.—­Picot or Dot on Sorrento Bar.]

No. 470 shows a dot or picot upon a Sorrento bar worked between rows of point de Bruxelles, three twisted stitches being worked into the loop left by the twisted thread; this forms a picot resembling satin stitch in appearance.

Nos. 471 and 472.—­RALEIGH BARS are worked over a foundation or network of coarse thread, twisted in places so as to more easily fall into the desired form.

[Illustration:  471.—­Raleigh Bars.]

[Illustration 472.—­Network for Working Raleigh Bars.]

By following the numbering from No. 1 to 21, in No. 472, a square place may be easily filled, and portions of this arrangement applied to form groundwork of any shape desired.  Upon this groundwork tight point de Bruxelles stitches are worked, and the dot worked upon these in one of the following ways:—­

DOT or PICOT.—­1st Mode:  Five tight point de Bruxelles stitches, one loose point de Bruxelles; pass the needle under the loop and over the thread, as shown in point de Venise bars No. 469, draw up, leaving a small open loop as in tatting.  Work five tight point de Bruxelles and repeat. 2nd Mode:  Proceed as above, but instead of continuing the tight stitches work two or three tight stitches in the loop thus formed, and repeat. 3rd Mode:  Work four tight point de Bruxelles stitches, one loose, through which pass the needle point, wind the thread three or four times round the point, as shown in illustration No. 473, press the thumb tightly on this, and draw the needle and thread through the twists.  This is a quick mode of making the picot, and imitates most closely the real Spanish lace.

Illustration No. 473 also shows how this stitch may be applied as a regular groundwork, but the beauty of old point groundwork bars is the variety of form.