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 163
Floss and spun silks were made up into diffe-rent kinds of threads, such as gimps, and chenilles, andeven small narrow ribands like those used on booktassels, and these varieties were intermixed in embroi-deries. Gold and silverwas employed not only insmooth threads, but alsofor granulated ones,… … way. On the other hand we Fig. 68.—Embroidery in Chinesestyle upon a coat of theeighteenth century (in the meet with specimens ofMuseum of Decorative Arts). .... work most curious in their close resemblance to embroidery, and yet entirelymade without a single needle stitch. The methodof producing…
Lace and lace making · Embroidery
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