Category: History - Other
The art of lace-making has from the earliest times been so interwoven with the art of needlework that it would be impossible to enter on the subject of the present work without giving some mention of the latter.
The art of lace-making has from the earliest times been so interwoven with the art of needlework that it would be impossible to enter on the subject of the present work without...
2. Part 2, 24 ff. Same decorated frontispiece and 22 plates of subjects insquares for stitches like the German patterns of the present day. These consist of the Seven Planets, Sol, Luna, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus and Saturn. Four in squares of var...
3. book I thought it not amisse to offer it unto your worship in token ofthankfullness for so many benefites which I have received so bountifullie at your hands Assuring myselfe moreover that as these patternes will bring sufficient contentment and p...
4. book 1592.[276] This ordinance even extended to foreign courts. We read in the Mercure _Galant_, 1679, of the Spanish ambassadress, "Elle etoit vestue de drap noir avec de la dentelle de...