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 23
. Needlepoint lace is made by first stitching threadalong the outlines of a pattern drawn or transferred uponpaper or parchment, by which means a skeleton thread 10 I. EMBROIDERY. pattern is produced (see the outline sprigs and sprayin fig. 6). This skeleton thread work serves as thescaffolding, as… … Fig. 6.—Parchment and pattern showing the skeleton thread patternand needlepoint lace in progress. analogy to those in embroidery, it will have been per-ceived that the work thus produced is altogetherdifferent from embroidery, since it has started fromno previously provided textile fabric. Design…
Lace and lace making · Embroidery
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