Tambour Lace
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A short note from The Connoisseur on Limerick or tambour lace, which is often mistaken for Brussels lace. It explains that the lace is worked on machine-made net with a tambour frame and fine needle or a crochet hook, with chain-stitch outlines filled in with needle-point stitches. It describes a specimen 3 yards long by 30 inches deep bought in India, notes production in Ireland, Belgium and Coggeshall, Essex, and dates the technique to about 1815, after the invention of machine net in 1809. A halftone photograph of the specimen is included.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1905
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 2
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