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Dainty work for pleasure and profit (1891)

Heron, Mrs. Adelaide E · Chicago : Danks & Co. · leaf 343

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phlet on the subject, and from itspages nearly all the magazine articles on Lace Making have beentaken, in a form so incomplete and mutilated as to be of little practicablevalue. The instructions necessary for a beginner are simple, and must be exactlyfollowed. Deftness of manipulation can be… … PLATE I. LACE STITCHES AND DESIGNS. 311 Point lace and Honiton lace are made on a foundation design of braidwhich is sewed to the outlines of patterns, and the spaces are then filled inwith the various lace stitches. In brief this is all of mystery of lace makingthere is about the work, yet how…

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