[Illustration: FIG. 530. COLLECTING KNOTS.]
SINGLE CROSSED KNOTS AND DOUBLE CROSSED KNOTS (figs. 532 and 533).—Two plain crossings of the threads, detail _a_, to begin with; after which you rapidly reverse the threads, turning the knot to the wrong side, drawing it up tightly at the same time; this forms the first knot, detail _b_. The second knot, fig. 533, is formed by 3 crossings, detail _a_; reverse the threads rapidly, to form the double crossed knot, detail _b_. For the following knots tie the threads together, as for the flat double knot, detail _c_.
LOOPED PICOT AND KNOTTED PICOTS (figs. 534 and 535).—Looped picots are made along a row of knots by setting the knots, far enough apart for the loop between, to form a picot when the knots are drawn up close together. In fig. 534, the detail _a_ represents the picot, in its first open stage, detail _b_ the same picot when it is finished.
Knotted picots, fig. 535, are formed after one or more flat double knots, by a knot made in the outer thread; to get this knot into the right place, make it on a big pin and draw it up close to the flat knot before you take out the pin.
[Illustration: FIG. 531. PLAITED AND WAVED KNOTS.]
[Illustration: FIG. 532. SINGLE CROSSED KNOT.]
[Illustration: FIG. 533. DOUBLE CROSSED KNOT.]
These picots are always made on both sides and can be repeated several times along a row of knots. Detail _a_ shows the crossing of the threads for the picots, detail _b_ the picots completed and followed by a flat knot.
BEAD KNOTS (fig. 536).—A bead knot is made by turning back the threads after a row of flat double knots. Detail _a_ shows three flat double knots finished, detail _b_ the inner threads turned back over the flat double knots, detail _c_ the two knotting threads, brought between the two threads coming from the left to the right, and detail _d_ the bead knot finished and followed by a flat double knot.
BARS OF KNOTS TO THE RIGHT AND LEFT (figs. 537, 538, 539, 540, 541, 542, 543, 544).—After knotting on the requisite number of threads on to a double cord, make two button-hole loops with the right thread round the left one, fig. 537, then knot each thread twice over the second cord, fig. 538. These knots must be as close together as possible. This done, begin to make the slanting bars, inclining from left to right, with 4 threads.