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The dictionary of needlework : an encyclopaedia of artistic, plain, and fancy needlework dealing fully with the details of all the stitches employed, the method of working, the materials used, the meaning of technical terms, and, where necessary, tracing the origin and history of the various works described (1882)

Caulfeild, S. F. A. (Sophia Frances Anne), 1824-1911, Saward, Blanche C · London : A.W. Cowan · leaf 50

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Bedfordshire, and Buckinghamshire, are similar in pat-tern to that of Lille, but are inferior as to workman-ship, no other town having attained to the beauty andlightness of the Fond Clair, or single Reseau Ground,that distinguishes the Lille Lace, and to which it owes itspopularity. The design of… … Fia. 5S4. Lille Lace. with a thick, straight edge, and with a stiff, formal, smallpattern as a design, with square instead of the usual rounddots worked over the ground. The ground is made bytwisting two threads together for two sides of the mesh,and crossing the threads over each other for the…

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