Lace section from Historic Ornament: Treatise on Decorative Art and Architectural Ornament
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An extract on lace from James Ward's Historic Ornament (1897), covering the Textile Fabrics chapter pages 333-343. It surveys hand-made lace, distinguishing needle-point from pillow-made, and traces lace from lacis and cutwork through Venetian pattern-books to the main national types: Italian, Flemish, French, English and Irish. It also describes grounds, cordonnet, brides and guipure, and closes with the Burano revival and machine-made lace from Nottingham. Illustrated with photographs of Genoese, Brussels, Alençon, guipure, Venetian, Mechlin, Honiton and Irish point laces and a diagram of lace grounds.
- Type
- Monograph
- Date
- 1897
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 12
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