A treatise on lace-making, embroidery, and needle-work with Irish flax threads
An instruction manual and thread catalogue on lace-making, embroidery and needlework issued by Barbour Brothers Co. of New York in 1892, written by Mary E. Bradford for home needleworkers buying Irish flax threads. The plates are high-contrast halftones of finished lace on black grounds—square handkerchief borders, tatted medallion grids, scalloped Battenberg edgings, ground meshes and picot rows—usable as white-on-black ornament, repeating border stock and corner motifs.
