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Point de Grecque

  • Grecian Point

This needlelace stitch consists of three lace stitch filling stitches worked closely together followed by a similar sized gap.  It has similarities with treble Brussels stitch, the difference being in the basic stitch used.

This stitch first appears in print in Mrs Beeton’s 1870 Book of needlework.

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Knotted Pattern Looped Detached Open Filling Embellishment Needlelace

Point de Grecque is generously sponsored by Axelio Schiller in memory of her mother, Margit Schiller (1962-2023)

Method

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Point de Grecque method stage 1 illustration
Point de Grecque method stage 1 photograph
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Working from left to right, work a lace stitch filling onto the top bar of the cordonnet. (Wrapping the working thread around your thumb anticlockwise.)

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Point de Grecque method stage 2 illustration
Point de Grecque method stage 2 photograph
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Work two more identical stitches close together to create a cluster of three stitches.

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Point de Grecque method stage 3 illustration
Point de Grecque method stage 3 photograph
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Leave a space equivalent to three stitches then work another group of three. Continue in this way to the end of the row and tighten around the right side of the cordonnet.

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Point de Grecque method stage 4 illustration
Point de Grecque method stage 4 photograph
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Working from right to left, work three stitches into the loops between the stitch blocks of the previous row. (This time wrap the working thread around your thumb clockwise.)

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Point de Grecque method stage 5 illustration
Point de Grecque method stage 5 photograph
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Repeat these two rows until the area is filled.

Point de Grecque

Structure of stitch

Knotted Pattern Looped Detached

Common uses

Open Filling Embellishment

Embroidery Techniques

Needlelace

Related Stitches

Treble Brussels stitch

Identifying Point de Grecque

This stitch is very similar to treble Brussels stitch, the difference is the basic stitch (lace stitch filling) has an extra twist.  Both stitches form small blocks of stitches interspersed with long loops which pull into a diamond pattern.

References

  • Ros Hills, Pat Gibson, Needlelace stitches - classic and contemporary (1989) , p.35
  • Isabella Mary Beeton, 'Beeton’s Book of Needlework', Beeton's Book of Needlework (1870). Available at: http://www.beetonsbookofneedlework.com/ (Accessed: 01 December 2021)