Old lace, a handbook for collectors; an account of the different styles of lace, their history, characteristics & manufacture
A collector's handbook on the history and manufacture of lace by Margaret Jourdain, published in London and New York by Batsford and Scribner in 1909 for antiquarians, dealers and needleworkers. The plates are photographic strips of lace borders shot against black, showing reticella grids and wheels, punto in aria scrolls, and figured bands with animals, heraldic beasts and lettered inscriptions; usable as white-on-black repeating border patterns, rosette motifs and openwork textures.
