Piece of linen with a beginning of cutwork with wheels and squares as an example of this technique with matching fragment

Sample of natural-colored linen with lace embroidery: reticella in open needlework technique (cutwork). Study material. In the coarse linen, a geometric pattern with four rows of openwork squares has been started, as an example of this technique. In a diagonal line, wheels stand around three intersections, one wheel per intersection, made by sewing chain and weft threads with buttonhole stitch. The warp threads forming the wheels are also sewn with buttonhole stitch. In six openwork squares, a small wheel stands in each square within a network of non-buttonholed warp threads. To the right of the pattern, warp threads (vertical) and weft threads (horizontal) are partly cut away and drawn out. Buttonholing has begun on the remaining bundles of weft threads. The linen is finished with hems along which a border of work with drawn threads is made. Accompanying the sample is a fragment of fine linen with the same pattern, which is finished.