1. The plat (sketch d), or stitch which forms the flat woven parts, which can be more or less tightly drawn, and serves for all the opaque parts of the lace. It is made by simple loops, each row being consolidated by means of a stretched thread as illustrated in the sketch. [Illustration: _d._ Stitch for the _plat_ or surface] [Illustration: _e._ Stitch one] 2. The _jours_ or open-work stitches. Among the fantasy stitches employed in the jours are: [Illustration: _f._ Mirror stitch] _a._ The _point one_, or stitch one, (sketch e.) There exists also a stitch _two_, and stitch _three_, which differ in the number of loops forming the group. _b._ The _mirror_ stitch (sketch f.) and a kind of _ball_ stitch (sketch g.), and lastly the famous extremely transparent _point de gaze_, or gauze stitch (sketch h.), which constitutes the mesh of the popular Brussels lace. [Illustration: _g._ Ball stitch] All the surfaces having been covered, the lace is further embellished by the confection of _brodes_, or firm outlining cords around the filled-in spaces, which produce a more or less striking effect of relief in needle laces. This _brode_ (sketch i), is made of a strand of fine or heavier threads, appliquéd as was the original strand outlining the pattern spaces, and then beautifully covered by the buttonhole stitch. When the brode is well made, the buttonhole stitches follow closely, touching side by side. [Illustration: _h._ Gauze mesh stitch] Many differing little details which help to give to needle lace its richness and brilliancy (balls, rings, etc.), are also varieties of brodes, and are made for the most part in the buttonhole stitch. The bars forming the base of Venise lace are made in this way. The execution of the brodes is the final work in needle lace. After they are finished, the lace detail is detached from the underlying pattern by cutting the thread between the black paper and supporting cloth, the fine thread which in the beginning attached the outlining strand. There remains only to join the separate details of the pattern by a very fine stitch called the _point invisible_. [Illustration: _i._ Brode, buttonhole stitch] The varieties of needle laces are: _a._ Venise (_fond_ or base composed of _brides_ or bars). _b._ Reticella (Venise lace of geometric design and made without brodes or outlining relief cords). _c._ Rose Point (Venise with a design of fine branches and tendrils). _d._ Brussels Point or Needle Point (very fine lace in which a gauze mesh replaces the bars employed in Venise). _II.—Bobbin Lace_ Bobbin laces fall under two groups: (1) Those made with cut threads, and (2) those made with continuous threads.