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Lace Collars and Yokes as Gifts
Lace Collars and Yokes as Gifts
Article · 2 pages
A 1900 Harper's Bazar article by Lillian M. Siegfried on making hand-worked braid lace collars and yokes as holiday gifts. It advises using one consistent stitch type per design, describes Russian stitch, Sorrento bars, cobweb filling and French twist, and recommends small collars for beginners. It also gives instructions for a small embroidered thread bag. Photographs show Renaissance, Honiton and Bruges braid collars.
Lace Making as an Art
Lace Making as an Art
Article · 5 pages
A 1900 Harper's Bazar article by Lillian M. Siegfried promoting hand-made needle lace as an art and a prospective American industry. It explains basting braid onto a parchment pattern, the basic web, twist and cobweb stitches, and the use of Honiton, point and guipure braids with fine linen thread. Illustrated designs include a Honiton bolero, collars, Renaissance and Battenberg butterflies, and a guipure scarf. It also covers household uses such as bed covers, curtains and tea cloths, and comments on pillow laces and European lace schools.
New Designs for Decorative Lace-Making
New Designs for Decorative Lace-Making
Article · 2 pages
A two-page article from Harper's Bazar by Lillian M. Siegfried on new designs for tape (braid) lace, including Battenberg and Renaissance work. It describes a large lace butterfly motif for dress trimming and boleros, plus bow-knots and flowers appliqued on silk, and round doilies and centrepieces worked in braids with cobweb stitches. It gives practical advice on turning corners and choice of linen thread, and is illustrated with line drawings of the butterfly, doilies and bow-knot.
Old World Laces
Old World Laces
Article · 3 pages
A short illustrated magazine article giving a popular history of lace from antiquity through the nineteenth century. It covers royal patronage, the development of point lace, Flemish, Venetian, Honiton and Irish laces, the trade and tariffs, and the introduction of machine-made net and bobbin-net. Illustrations show a royal lace bed-cover, Italian altar and wall draperies of the sixteenth century, and an altar drapery in Spanish guipure and Milanese point.
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