Traité de la Dentelle au Fuseau [A Treatise on Bobbin Lace]
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A French instruction manual on making bobbin lace (dentelle au fuseau) by Louise d'Alq, fourth edition, 1879, with 112 wood-engraved illustrations. It begins with the equipment (cushion and drum pillows, bobbins, pins), the basic movements (jeté, croix, épinglage), and the ground stitches (point réseau, point de toile). It then gives numbered patterns with pricked designs and bobbin counts, covering narrow laces, insertions (entre-deux), torchon, guipure, Malines, Valenciennes and point d'Angleterre. The last sections cover Brussels needle-point gauze (point de gaze), applications, and embroidery on tulle. A supplement of 16 further plates is bound at the end.
- Type
- Book
- Date
- 1879
- Language
- French
- Pages
- 67
- Archive notes
- 2-up, landscape mode. 67 document pages
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