Laces
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A short 1869 magazine piece, reprinted from the Chicago Tribune, giving a general account of lace history. It traces point lace from fourteenth-century nuns' needlework to the sixteenth-century introduction of pillow lace and the later perfection of machine lace at Nottingham. It lists well-known needle laces and pillow laces and the places that produced them.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1869
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 1
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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