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 189
176 II. LACES. Of this character is cutwork embroidery, or cuttingout certain selected spaces from between the devices … Fig 85.—Embroidery of drawn threadwork (Miisee des Artsdecoratifs, from a design published in 1588). embroidered on the linen. Such cut spaces filled in withopen devices (a jours) were at first sparingly adopted THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 177 (fig. 84); but by degrees, as the pleasant effects…
Lace and lace making · Embroidery
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