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 188
hings the colour getsfainter and fainter untilit almost disappears. Butwhite embroidery, re-lieved by open spaces in,or shapes cut from, thelinen ground, is possessedof an altogether newcharm; and from a senseof this the birth may betraced of an art in theresults of which happy contrasts are… … 176 II. LACES. Of this character is cutwork embroidery, or cuttingout certain selected spaces from between the devices
Lace and lace making · Embroidery
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