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Message:: [QUOTE="Northern Lights Lodge, post: 2344748, member: 13464"]Hi [USER=1067]@Houseful[/USER]   Ok... I think maybe I have it... This was found in Mary Thomas's Embroidery Book originally published in 1936. I have a Dover Reprint. Anyway; they show three different "bubbles" which they are calling picots. [ATTACH=full]260739[/ATTACH]Although your example 'appears' to just be two twisted threads (which make up the bar - off which the picot pops)... I can't find any reference to any thing being made that way. My own tries resulted in nothing - the method would just "fall apart". Therefore; perhaps the bars in your piece are just very quickly made - more less sloppy bars with only one or two button hole stitches on the span of the bar. Then employing one of the latter two methods (fig 107 or 108) to make the "bubble" picot. [ATTACH=full]260741[/ATTACH] #2. shows the "bubble" picot coming off a double bar - your's is definitely not like that. But #1 shows it coming off a single bar... and I think that looks quite similar! So perhaps we've figured it out! Whew! Hope you enjoyed the search as much as I did! Leslie[/QUOTE]