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The dictionary of needlework : an encyclopædia of artistic, plain, and fancy needlework ... (1882)

Caulfeild, S. F. A. (Sophia Frances Anne), 1824-1911, Saward, Blanche C · London : L. Upcott Gill · leaf 28

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. THE DICTIONARY OF NEEDLEWORK. «7 Auriphrygium.—The earliest term applied to the goldfringes that bordered the garments of the ancients, andthat are supposed to have given the idea of lace. ThePhrygian embroiderers in gold and silver were world-famed,and hence the word, though the work was not… … iiiiiiiiiiiiiiBiii ilG. 19. AU PASSE. Ave Maria Lace.—A narrow kind of Valencienneslace, made at Dieppe, and so designated by the peasants.

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