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 195
hirty-eight squares, some worked withrosettes or with blossoms, and others with nosegays.* At a very slightly later date, lengths of insertionsmade of darned or run net {lacis) were used, and ofsuch there are good specimens in the Musee des Artsdecoratifs (fig. 89). Part of a handsome curtain… … Fig. 89.—Band of stout threads darned into network (/tf«*s\[sixteenthcentury (Musee des Arts decoratifs). THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 183 white thread embroideries on linen, cut points, anddrawn threadwork, followed by needlework upon quin-tain or open canvas, and lastly by darning or runningupon net or…
Lace and lace making · Embroidery
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