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Embroidery and lace: their manufacture and history from the remotest antiquity to the present day. A handbook for amateurs, collectors and general readers

Lefébure, Ernest, b. 1835, Cole, Alan S. (Alan Summerly), 1846-1934 · 1888 · London, H. Grevel · 148 pictures

A history and handbook of embroidery and lace by the French lace manufacturer Ernest Lefébure, translated and annotated by Alan S. Cole and published in London in 1888 for amateurs, collectors and general readers. Plates reproduce lace and needlework as white pattern on black or ink line, giving scrolling borders, floral sprigs, scalloped edgings and framed corner panels usable as ornament and rules.

Lace and lace making · Embroidery

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