A lace guide for makers and collectors; with bibliography and five-language nomenculture, profusely illus. with halftone plates and key designs
A technical handbook and collector's reference on lace, written by Gertrude Whiting and published by E.P. Dutton in New York in 1920, with a bibliography and five-language terminology for lacemakers, dealers, and museum cataloguers. The plates are close-up halftone photographs of lace samples shot against dark grounds, showing net grounds, filling stitches, and cut-work grids as high-contrast white線 on black; designers can pull them as repeating mesh textures, openwork borders, and ready-made monochrome pattern fields.
