Real Lace -- A Hint to Collectors
Page 1 of 1, a sample page, at reduced quality. Open the document to read it in full.
A short note from The Connoisseur advising collectors on buying real black lace, especially Chantilly. It explains how to tell hand-made pillow lace from machine imitation by examining the edge loops or picots, and warns against "needle-run" lace, in which the net and design are machine-made and the outline is added by hand. It also describes a photographed specimen of old Chantilly, possibly a century old and made for exhibition, and comments on the fashion and low prices of black lace in 1905.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1905
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 1
(A free account is all you need)
From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
Have missing pages or a better copy of this document, or another document to share? Contributing documents »