L'étoile en Carré Double: Star in a Double Square: A Recently Rediscovered Lace Filling Stitch
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Article by Aurelia Loveman describing a bobbin lace filling stitch she identified in an early Valenciennes flounce at the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, and named l'étoile en carré double. It reviews lace-structure books (Whiting, Henneberg, Cook and Stott), then explains step by step how the pairs move through the star, the inner square 'double' frame and the surrounding carré, with a basic étoile drawing and a schematic diagram. A table shows that the stitch appears in almost none of twelve standard lace books, and the notes describe the Walters flounce and cite sources.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1985
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 9
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- By permission
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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