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 28
and indicated upon the pattern before the lace is begun.The cutting up of a pillow lace pattern into convenientportions differs in some cases from the correspondingoperation for needlepoint laces. Excepting in certainstyles of Flemish pillow lace, where the separationof the pattern into portions… … Point de Racroc (unitingstitch).—This is said to havebeen invented at Bayeux in thelast century by a workwomannamed Cahanet. It openedthe way to the manufactureof pieces of pillow lacemuch larger than thosemade before its invention. T . _ . . Fig. 11.—Another class of cushion It consists in…
Lace and lace making · Embroidery
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