A History of Hand-made Lace: Dealing with the Origin of Lace, the Growth of the Great Lace Centres, the Mode of Manufacture, the Methods of Distinguishing and the Care of Various Kinds of Lace

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L.U. Gill, 1900 - Lace and lace making - 245 pages
 

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Page 105 - ANTIQUE POINT AND HONITON LACE. Containing Plain and Explicit Instructions for Making, Transferring, and Cleaning Laces of every Description, with about One Hundred Illustrations, Outlines, and Pricking of the Principal Point Stitches and Honiton Sprigs. By Mrs.
Page 6 - Then the shirts of all who can find money to purchase them by fair or foul means, " are wrought throughout with needlework of silke, and such like, and curiously stitched with open seame, and many other knacks besides...
Page 98 - Arranged to meet the requirements of the Syllabus of the Science and Art Department of the Committee of Council on Education, South Kensington.
Page 33 - Privy-garden saw the finest smocks and linnen petticoats of my Lady Castlemaine's, laced with rich lace at the bottom, that ever I saw: and did me good to look at them.
Page 37 - I can, at any rate, show that the experiments made with it at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century fully confirm the high encomium bestowed by Dioscorides upon his indicum.
Page 32 - Flanders, they are in great esteem ; whereas, if the like laces were made by the English, so much thread as would make a yard of lace, being put into that manufacture, would be five times, or, perhaps, ten or twenty times the value, 15.
Page 155 - From the evidence it would appear that the submergence took place at the end of the fourteenth or the beginning of the fifteenth century.
Page 197 - Spanish point," but pieces of the very finest description (Fig. VII., coloured plate), so exquisite as to have been the work only of those whose " time was not money," and whose devotion to the Church and to their favourite saints rendered this work a labour of love, when in plying their needles they called to mind its destination. We have lately received from Rome photographs of some curious relics of old Spanish conventual work — parchment patterns with the lace in progress. They were found in...
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