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. Illustrated with upwards of 800 wood engravings, and coloured plates. Plain sewing, textiles, dressmaking, appliances, and terms (1885)
Caulfeild, Sophia Frances Ann, 1824-1911 · London : L. Upcott Gill · leaf 33
.The modern Macramc is worked like the knotted laces.See Maceame. Knotting.—This work is one of the varieties of theRagusa and Beticella 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… … Fig. 563. Enotting. for a century after, was worked upon a wooden supportor pillow, and was entirely composed of the stitch illns-trated in Fig. 562, which is one of the stitches used as aFilling in Macrame Lace. The work was used to makeornamental covers for hand bags and other aiticles thatwere…
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