A treatise on lace-making, embroidery, and needle-work with Irish flax threads
A technical manual on lace-making, embroidery, and needlework with Irish flax threads, written by Mary E. Bradford and published by thread manufacturer Barbour Brothers Co. in New York in 1892 for home needleworkers and instructors. Halftone photographs show finished crochet and lace pieces against black grounds, yielding pale openwork rosettes, scalloped edgings, and dense repeating stitch grids usable as textures or borders.
