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 279
ever, the more skilfulof the pattern designers of whom Isabetta CataneaParasole is an instance, invented patterns for pillowlaces, marking under them the number of bobbins to beused in working each. In Saxony Dame Barbara Etterlein, wife of Chris-topher Uttmann, a great proprietor of mines,… … Fig. 122.—Bobbin or pillow-madepassement (Musee des Arts decoratifs.) TO THE END OF THE REIGN OF LOUIS XIV. 267 told of an old woman—somewhat of a sorceress, nodoubt—who, noticing the kindly devotion of the goodChatelaine of St. Annaberg in instructing the poorpeasant women to make pillow lace,…
Lace and lace making · Embroidery
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