PUNTO A STUORA Matting stitch. This stitch is used to make the centres of geometrical patterns in lacis and reticello work. It looks like the centre of a round mat or basket. _See_ enlarged stitch, No. 1, Plate 8. PUNTO TAGLIATO Work on cut linen. PUNTO A TELA Linen or cloth stitch. PUNTO TIRATO Work on linen, which is begun by pulling threads from the linen without cutting it. _See_ TELA TIRATA, enlarged stitch, No. 5, Plate 8. PUNTO TRECCIA Or tress stitch--so called from the threads of linen being left loose, and only caught here and there by a few stitches, so looking like a tress of hair. _See_ Plate 8, and top border of No. 2, Plate 29. Treccia also means plait. Later stitches were: PUNTO AVORIO _See_ IVORY STITCH, enlarged stitch, No. 6, Plate 8. PUNTO IN ARIA Needle-point lace worked without any foundation of net or linen, hence the term, aria--in the air. _See_ Plate 31. PUNTO A FESTONE Buttonhole stitch: in French point noué. The term "a festone" comes from festoon--a garland hanging in a curve--the stitch being often used when edging lace to form curves or festoons round the edge or the patterns of lace. The buttonhole or looped stitch is used in constructing the toilé, or fond, and also to cover the cordonnet and brides of needle-point lace. Until the advent of the réseau this stitch was almost the only one used in Venetian needle-point. _See_ enlarged lace Plate 49, and Plate 52. PUNTO RICCIO Literally curled stitch: this is a variety of punto scritto, but the name will easily be understood on looking at the specimens--as they are adorned with the tendril-like curls, which gives the name to this stitch. _See_ No. 3, Plate 28. PUNTO REALE This is really an embroiderer's stitch, and in English called satin stitch; in linen lace it is usually associated with punto tirato. PUNTO IN RILIEVO Raised or rose stitch. PUNTO SCRITTO Literally writing stitch, as this stitch is used for marking names and generally for outlining work. In English it would be called short stitch.