A supplemental descriptive catalogue of specimens of lace acquired for the South Kensington museum, between June 1880 and June 1890 / By Alan S. Cole
A museum acquisitions catalogue by Alan S. Cole listing lace bought by the South Kensington Museum between 1880 and 1890, printed in London in 1891 for curators, collectors and textile manufacturers. The plates are photographic records of lace against black grounds, giving white scrolling foliage, scalloped and pointed borders, needlepoint grounds and repeating floral panels usable as ornamental fills, edgings and high-contrast textures.
