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 42
Bedfordshire, and Biickinghamshire are similar as topattern 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… … Fig. 58i. Lille Lace. with a thick straight edge, and with a stiff foi-mal 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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