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 164
S XV. TO THE PRESENT TIME. 151 melting state. Flat silk threads could then be appliedto the lines of the engraving as seen through the trans-parent glue. By pressing them with a nail of the fingeror a small instrument the flat silk threads were madeto adhere to the surface, being carried backwards… … Fig. 69.—Embroidered pocket of a satin waistcoat of the eighteenthcentury (in the Museum of Decorative Arts). impression of flat embroidery in fine silk. Skin textureswere obviously very difficult of treatment in thismanner, consequently, wherever they occurred in theengraving, blank spaces were as…
Lace and lace making · Embroidery
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