The motifs are then joined using chains and picots. These features are joined together with plaits with picots, fillings, leaf plaits and braids. The simplest approach is to bind off, possibly with decorative elements such as picots. All hems may have various types of borders, such as picots, ribbing and frills. The cast-on can also be decorated with various stitch patterns, especially picots. Plaits, sometimes with picots, and tallies are common. It can have picots along the edge. Where picots used to be largely for ornament, they are now used functionally as well.