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 302
the rich reliefs whichabounded in the Venetian needlepoint laces of similar FROM LOUIS XV. TO THE PRESENT TIME. 289 ornamental motifs : the flowers in this Milanese lacewere flat and wrought with the appearance of compactlywoven linen ; here and there, somewhat sparsely, wouldbe introduced open… … Fig. 131.—Milanese pillow lace with mesh ground. off the curved and scrolled devices. As in the Vene-tian points, eagles, armorial bearings, and crowns werefrequently intermingled with them. Unfortunately the taste for grounds of small meshescarried all before it in the eighteenth century;…
Lace and lace making · Embroidery
Internet Archive · Smithsonian Libraries · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
