Pass the second shuttle into the right hand and make the same movements with it as you do in working with two silk threads, the shuttle-silk (with which the knots are made must lie between the two silks of the loop, so that the end of the silk laid around the hand hangs down, free in front, only held by the thumb of the left hand.

     When the second silk is only used to make chairs it can be used from the spool quite as handily as from a shuttle, in which case the spool silk is passed around the fingers of the left hand and held between the thumb and forefinger.

     In working with two silk threads, remember that the scallops just finished should turn downwards.

     OPEN AND CLOSE PICOT (Figs. 8 and 9). These are formed of single stitches, leaving a loop on the extended silk, as shown in Fig. 8, and a short length of silk between the stitches: finish the second half stitch, and when you have pulled it up join it to the preceding stitch. In this manner the picot represented in Fig. 0 is formed quite naturally.


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