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 321
.The modern Macrame is worked like the knotted laces.See Macrame. Knotting.—This work is one of the varieties of theRagusa and Reticella Guipures invented after those lacesbecame obsolete. The first notice of Knotting in Englandoccurs in the time of William III., when a poet, enume-rating the… … Fin. 562. Knotting. for a century after, was worked upon a wooden supportor pillow, and was entirely composed of the stitch illus-trated in Fig. 562, which is one of the stitches used as aFilling in Macrami Lace. The work was used to makeornamental covers for hand bags and other articles thatwere…
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