The Bulletin of the Needle and Bobbin Club, Vol. 7, No. 1 (1923)
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Issue of the Bulletin of the Needle and Bobbin Club (Vol. 7, No. 1, 1923). It opens with Georges Seligman's article on the 1720 inventory of the wardrobe of Marie Anne de Bourbon, Princess of Condé, listing gowns, fabrics, linens and laces with their prices in livres. Mabel H. Kerrison describes growing and processing flax in New Hampshire, covering dew-retting, breaking, scutching and hackling, with photographs of the tools. Madame L. Paulis surveys the Belgian lace industry in the nineteenth century, including Empire-period application lace and Valenciennes. The issue closes with club and guild notes, a testimonial dinner for Gertrude Whiting, book and field notes, lists of officers and advertisements from lace dealers.
- Type
- Periodical
- Date
- 1923
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 49
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