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 197
Fig. 90.—Italian design taken from Cesare Vecellios Corona dellevirtuose donne. Pattern books.—Now, during the early developmentof these open ground embroideries, some difficulty wasexperienced in procuring patterns for them. Such ascould be drawn by pen upon parchment, or made into 184 II. LACES.… … Fig. 91.—Curtain border of darned net (lacis), French workof the sixteenth century. insufficient to satisfy a demand, the sources of whichmultiplied with rapidity. The assistance which embroiderers derived from THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 185 the art of engraving and various modes of printing hasalready…
Lace and lace making · Embroidery
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