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Cantor Lectures on the Art of Lace-Making (1881)

Cole, Alan S. (Alan Summerly), 1846-1934 · London : W. Trounce · leaf 10

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2. Upon it aro intertwisted—diagonally across the meshes—rows of some eight or twelve strings or cords, and so the seat, not unlike our modem cane seats, is constructed. This sort of plaiting and intertwisting, however, cannot be said to have decorative pretence, and is not so germane to orna-… … Along the borders of Mediaeval costume, this Assyrian border, 800 b.c. custom of indenting the border was perpetuated. (See Fig. 4.) The French word, “ dentelle,” is the upper part of these borders appear to consist of round, plaited cords, very similar in their Fig. 4. plaiting to that which we…

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