How to Make Battenberg and Point Lace
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An instructional handbook on making Battenberg and needle point lace, published by the Priscilla Publishing Company in 1900. It covers choice of linen braid and thread, making rings, basting braid to patterns, and preparing a practice sampler. Most of the book describes lace stitches with numbered figures: bars, wheels (spiders), insertions, network stitches, Point de Venise, Spanish point, Brussels point, Point d'Angleterre, combination stitches, picots and edgings. It closes with advice on washing, starching and finishing lace.
- Type
- Book
- Date
- 1900
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 47
- Archive notes
- Scanned image provided by Tess Parrish
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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