No. 2. Point de Venise à réseau No. 3. Point d'Argentan. No. 4. Brussels needle-made réseau No. 5. Brussels bobbin-made réseau] [Illustration: PLATE X. SEVEN ENLARGED VARIETIES OF RÉSEAUX No. 1. Bobbin-made Maglia di Spagna No. 2. Bobbin-made Fond chant or Point de Paris No. 3. Round mesh bobbin-made Valenciennes No. 4. Bobbin-made Mechlin No. 5. Cinq trous réseau No. 6. Bobbin-made square mesh Valenciennes No. 7. Lille, Arras, or Buckingham réseau] [Illustration: PLATE XI. BORDER OF LACIS OR DARNED SQUARE MESH NET. PUNTO A TELA OR LINEN-STITCH With religious inscriptions: a fanciful peacock and the letters I.H.S. surrounded by a glory of flames and by little angular angels 4 ft. 10 in. × 2 ft. 10 in. _Italian, 15th century_] [Illustration: PLATE XII. BORDER OF SQUARE MESH LACIS Intended probably for an altar-cloth with a design of ornamental hexagonal compartments worked in linen stitch, in each of which are various devices, I.H.S. in a heart-shape above two heraldic lions, elsewhere a stag, pairs of birds, symmetrical devices of leaf and blossom, etc. 6 ft. × 10 in. _French, 15th century_] [Illustration: PLATE XIII. TWO EXAMPLES OF LACIS WORK No. 1. Lacis with gammadion, or early Christian symbol. 4 ft. No. 2. Lacis cover, containing 39 squares of different patterns darned with punto a tela or linen stitch. The border is of bobbin-made lace. 2 ft. 1 in. × 21 in. _Italian, 15th century_] [Illustration: PLATE XIV. PART OF A QUILT Made of squares of lacis work alternating with oblongs of linen in which are squares worked in needle-point called reticello or cut-work. 3 ft. 8 in. × 2 ft. 4 in. _Italian, 15th century_] [Illustration: PLATE XV. LACIS TABLE-COVER Of square mesh net worked in linen stitch with bold and graceful scrolls, leaves, etc., amidst which are cartouches of foliated shields bearing a heraldic lion in the centre. The pattern is outlined and enriched with gold thread, and the cartouches have a variety of stitches. It has a bobbin-made vandyke edging of lace (merletti a fuselli) with gold thread introduced into it. 5 ft. 6 in. × 22 in. _Italian, 16th century_] [Illustration: PLATE XVI. (1) VANDYKE BORDER OF LACIS. (2) PART OF A QUILT OF SQUARES OF LACIS No. 1. Vandyke border of lacis knotted square mesh net darned in linen stitch with repeated large and small blossoms; the larger ones resemble Tudor roses. 4 ft. _English, 16th century_ No. 2. Part of a quilt of squares of lacis, the one shown has a pattern of a vine: alternating with rectangles of linen decorated with small cut-work. 3 ft. 3 in. × 2 ft. _German, 16th century_ The pattern in both pieces is outlined and partly worked with punto riccio] [Illustration: PLATE XVII. BORDER OF LACIS WITH THE TWISTED MESH CALLED BURATTO The design is worked in punto a rammendo with numerous armed men and animals. 5 ft. 9 in. _Italian, 15th century_]