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Seven centuries of lace (1908)

Pollen, Maria Margaret, d. 1919 · London : W. Heinemann · leaf 89

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ILATE XI. BORDER OF LACIS OR DARNED SQUARE MESH NET(worked in punto a tela or linen-stitch) With religious inscriptions : a fanciful peacock and the letters I.H.S. surrounded by a glory of flames and by little angular angels 4 ft. 10 in. X 2 ft. lo in. ItaHan, islh century … iLATi: Xll. BORDER OF SQUARE MESH LACIS Intended probably for an altar-cloth, with a^dtsign of ornamental hexagonal compartments worked in linen stitch, in each of which are variousdevices, I.H.S. in a heart-shape above two heraldic lions, elsewhere a stag, pairs of birds, symmetrical devices of…

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