It may be either the plain weaving or may have picots on each side of the bar.
A row of chainstitching is worked and basted to the edge of the pattern, then the filling in background is worked, joining the different motifs together with rows of chainstitching and picots or any other background stitch desired.
Ch 2, begin in 8th stitch of next ring and make 3 picots there and so continue to the end of edging.
They are called picots (pronounced pe-co) and they are made somewhat like a French knot.
Another pretty arrangement of picots is to place them on one side of the bars so that they appear in groups of four each facing the other (Figure 165).
To make a simple edging, work a row of picots on the edge of the braid which forms the edge of the design.
Finish shells with a row of picots made by a ch of 3 caught in every st with a s c.
Brides are often adorned with picots, or little knots, and are then called brides picotées, when they have no picots they are brides claires.
The pattern consists of slender scrolls, with flowers enriched with massings or galleries of picots surrounding the letters I.
The open work border is made from the 1st large star, beginning near the 9th treble at the point where the picots leave off.
If you find the pinning out troublesome and cannot get it all done before the lace dries, damp the picots with a sponge as you proceed.
The four emptypicots in the centre are connected by a small star.
When the squares are finished they are edged with picots on the two lower sides, as shown in fig.
Picots are also sometimes made with the needle and cotton in working over these bars.
The picotsare made after the method directed at the illustration of point de Venise bars in the department devoted to stitches.
In making the lace, narrow braid and cord are used for the foundation of the design, and then the filling-in stitches are made and at the same time rings and buttons and bars and picots are introduced.
The design illustrated may be followed in Battenburg braid or plain lace tape, and any of the fancy stitches mentioned and described among the rosettes, bars and picots may be employed for filling-in purposes.
All dots and picots render work much more effective, and may be introduced at will by the worker.
Raleigh bars with picots connect the border and center designs, while the palms along the border as well as other small spaces are filled in with point Turque and point de Grecque stitches.
Raleigh bars with picots define the upper edge of the edging, and Sorrento bars on which buttons are worked form the ground work.
Raleigh bars with picots form the connecting ground-work throughout the work.
Make the picots and d c’s as in the motif, joining to the 2 lower groups of triple trs as before.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "picots" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
