LACIS OR LASSIS Derived from Latin _laqueus_, a noose, in English, Lace. A foundation of net, or filet, with a pattern darned into it. The net for the Italian lacis, called punto a maglia quadra, as well as for the French filet or lacis, was made very much as fish-nets are now made; the darning-stitch was called punto a rammendo. In Buratto lacis, sometimes called punto di Ragusa, the twisted network was made by passing the foundation threads forwards and backwards in a frame. (_See_ No. 3, Plate 8.) The name Buratto comes from the sieves made in this way in Italy for sifting grain and meal. MACRAMÉ Derived from the Arabic. It is a hand-made, knotted fringe, called Moresco in Spain. MAGLIA Mesh. MEZZO PUNTO A description of lace in which the pattern is formed with a braid or tape, and the brides and fillings are of needle-point work. _See_ Plate 55. MODANO A general name in Italy for lacis work with square mesh. MODES _See_ Fillings. PICOTS Loops or knots added to brides, or, indeed, to any part of the lace, for its enrichment. PILLOW LACE Lace made with bobbins on a pillow; this lace is called in Italian trine a fuselli, or sometimes merletti a piombini, as in making the coarser lace the workers attach pieces of lead to the bobbins. POINT LACE Strictly speaking, should always mean needle-made lace, as the term is used too generally in respect of either needle-made or pillow-made lace to be of much value as a definition without further qualification. POINT DE NEIGE A name sometimes given to fine Venice needle-point lace, with many small raised flowers and clusters of picots--which give the effect almost of snowflakes. _See_ Plate 50. PUNTO A stitch. PUNTI In the earliest needle-point lace-work on linen or net the punti, or stitches, were as follows: PUNTO A RAMMENDO (sometimes called PUNTO DI GENOA). Darning or ladder stitch. This is the stitch used in lacis work. _See_ enlarged stitch Nos. 1 and 3 of Plate 8.