CROCHETING - Filet Crochet

Filet crochet should also be mentioned here as it is an ‘art’ in itself and most
popular in Southern Europe, where women, young and old, sit on their doorstep
and create the most beautiful table cloths, bedspreads and even curtains in the
finest cotton!

Filet crochet is based on a simple network with a regular square grid usually
made of treble and chain stitches. Pattern instructions are usually presented in
the form of squared charts, representing a view of the finished fabric, in which
the vertical lines represent treble stitches and the horizontal ones (top of the
rows) chain stitches. Designs of all kinds are created by ‘filling in’ some of
the squares (or ‘spaces’) with treble stitches instead of chains (Figs 152 and
153).

These charts are ‘read’ in the same general way as fairisle charts, that is
working from the bottom upwards and to and fro, and a key is always given
showing you what each square represents.

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