Category: History - Other
DEAR MRS. POLLEN,--Having examined the admirable photographs to your lace collection, and the letterpress which you have written to accompany them, with a view to meet your wish that I should make revisions and suchlike where I thought necessary, please allow me in the first p...
To confirm this, I need only instance the fact that these, and other earliest known specimens of lacis and linen lace existing, are almost identical in design with the forms fam...
4. Part 4The Venetian point à réseau was made from about 1650 in Venice and Burano. The cap shown in No. 56 has a beautiful flowing design of a scroll with flowers and leaves, and brides...
1. Part 1DEAR MRS. POLLEN,--Having examined the admirable photographs to your lace collection, and the letterpress which you have written to accompany them, with a view to meet your wish...
2. Part 2BRIDES, or BARS Ties or loops between the edges of details, forming the pattern, and connecting them together. Brides are often adorned with picots, or little knots, and are the...
6. Part 6Called point de gaze on account of the delicacy of the réseau. The design of scrolls and flowers is chiefly worked in a rather loose toilé, outlined with a stout thread cordonne...
5. Part 5No. 2 is darned work with linen white thread, very similar to the Italian towel No. 1 in Plate XXVIII.; the background is afterwards darned in with coloured wool. This is also f...