Embroidery and lace: their manufacture and history from the remotest antiquity to the present day. A handbook for amateurs, collectors and general readers (1888)
Lefébure, Ernest, b. 1835, Cole, Alan S. (Alan Summerly), 1846-1934 · London, H. Grevel · leaf 16
e needle,which may beregarded as littlemore than a stiffand pointed con-tinuation of theflexible thread.Primitively theneedle was athorn or fish-bone ; subse-quently it wasmade in wood,bone, and ivorybefore it assumedshape in metal.In the hands of an able worker it is one of the mostprecious… … Fig. i. -A lady embroidering (after AbrahamBosse). 4 I. EMBROIDERY. fingers guiding it, sweeps with perfect freedom alongthe surface or through the thickness of a stuff. Likepen or pencil, it can be made to trace forms of anycomplexity, and, in two words, it writes and draws.Used with a variety of…
Lace and lace making · Embroidery
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