A treatise on lace-making, embroidery, and needle-work with Irish flax threads
An 1892 instruction manual issued by the Barbour Brothers Company of New York, written by Mary E. Bradford to teach lace-making, embroidery and needlework with the firm's Irish flax threads and to sell them. The plates are photographs of finished lace laid on black grounds \u2014 crochet medallions, Honiton-style floral borders, braided tape lace and scalloped doily edges \u2014 giving designers high-contrast white-on-black openwork motifs, corner treatments and repeating border bands.
