RETICELLO The word is derived from rete, a net, and is usually descriptive of the patterns in which repeated squares, with wheel or star devices and such-like, depending upon the diagonals of each square, are the prevailing features. In needle-point lace these openwork patterns are usually of buttonhole stitching. The squares are partly cut out of the linen material, the threads not cut are sewn over with punto a rammendo forming a frame for the rest of the work. (Plate 29.) The reticello pattern is also carried out in early bobbin-made lace. _See_ Plate 86. ROSALINE A modern Italian name for the fine Venetian point called point de neige. _See_ Plate 50. ROSE-POINT Any needle-point with raised work on it. This raised work may be sometimes suggestive of recurrent blossoms, but the word "rose" in this connection is technical, and merely means raised. SFILATURA Drawn thread work. A variety of lacis. _See_ No. 1, Plate 28. TELA TIRATA Or drawn work. The linen is sometimes "drawn," that is to say, threads of both warp and woof are removed from the entire piece to be worked, only leaving three or four threads each way. The pattern is then darned in so as to appear like the original linen. I believe the identical threads drawn out are sometimes used for this. The remaining threads are then sewn over to form the background of small squares. (_See_ No. 5, Plate 8.) A second way is only to draw threads from the background, cutting some of the cross threads, and leaving the original linen to form the pattern, as in No. 4, Plate 8.