Album de Dentelle de Venise [ Album of Venetian Lace ]
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A French-language instruction album on Venetian needle lace by Madame G. Hardouin, published by the Manufacture Parisienne des Cotons L.V. et M.F.A. It gives a short history of lace, then explains two ways of making Venetian lace: by hand on Reticella squares, and on a tombolo (lace cushion), with instructions for making the cushion and roller. It describes the stitches (saccola, greco, crema, punte groppo, punte tondo), the net grounds (regular, simple, crackled and picoted brides), and gives many photographed motifs for insertion, trimmings, and English embroidery pieces with Venetian inserts, with thread numbers for each.
- Type
- Book
- Language
- French
- Pages
- 50
- Archive notes
- scanned images provided by Sofi Michel
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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