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

Cole, Alan S. (Alan Summerly), 1846-1934 · London : W. Trounce · leaf 21

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a,” insertions of amazing delicacy of the relief work and its enrich- “ reticella,” and of similar design, may also be seen ment. Each of these little blossoms, actually about in Westminster Abbey carved upon the tombs of the the size of sixpence or threepence, is a bouquet in itself of hundreds of… … Venetian needle-point lace. and in this specimen the decorations worked upon the little tves should be noted ; while, for a sort of collar, the ends of which spread flatly over the breast of some courtier or minister, say like Colbert, we have samples as shown in Fig. 2. In all these specimens is a…

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