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 20
esigns are various ; the best is for the designer him-self to draw the pattern withpencil or chalk upon the material;for important pieces this is anoperation not to be delegated toany other hand. In less im-portant cases, the lines of thedesigners drawing upon papermay be pricked with needle holes,… … Fig. 4.—Tambour embroi-dery frame (St. Aubin). I. EMBROIDERY. adheres. Books on ladies fancy work generally con-tain descriptions of methods more or less ingeniousfor effecting pattern transfers. When canvas or textilefabrics with equally distinct reticulations are to beembroidered, the transfer of…
Lace and lace making · Embroidery
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