Old Point Lace and How to Copy it
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A Victorian guide to copying antique needle-made point lace, published in London in 1878 with seventeen illustrations by the author. After a preface and a short history of old point lace, it explains how to work braid, brides (bars) and button-hole-stitch fillings. Plates pair photographic reproductions of 17th-century Flemish and Italian laces in the South Kensington Museum with line-drawn working patterns for copying them, plus an original lace d'oyley design. The scan ends with the publisher's catalogue of Chatto & Windus books and an advertisement for an antique lace dealer.
- Type
- Book
- Date
- 1878
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 102
- Archive notes
- downloaded from archive.org.
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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