A history of hand-made lace : Dealing with the origin of lace, the growth of the great lace centres, the mode of manufacture, the methods of distinguishing and the care of various kinds of lace ...
A survey of hand-made lace by Emily Jackson (Mrs. F. Nevill Jackson), published in London and New York in 1900 for collectors, dealers and needleworkers wanting to identify and date lace by centre and technique. The plates are photographs of lace specimens shot against black grounds, so the thread reads as pale line on solid dark: scrolling floral borders, pointed flounces, ground meshes and diagram-like details of stitch construction, usable as ready-made reversed ornament, patterned fills and edge treatments.
