A descriptive catalogue of the lace and embroidery in the South Kensington Museum (1871)
South Kensington Museum · leaf 9
e of cloth called quintin, from the town in Brittany where it was first fabri- cated, and the pattern formed by. sewing round the parts of the cloth that were to remain, with. button-hole stitch and cutting the rest away ; hence its name of cutwork, At other times, no cloth was used at all, but the… … To this class belong the old conventual lace of Italy, often called “ Greek lace,”* and the finer and more delicate Seometric laces which in the 16th and 17th centuries were in universal use, and Were all comprised under the general name of “ Cutworks,” Embroidery, lacis, and cutwork are often…
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