Embroidery and lace: their manufacture and history from the remotest antiquity to the present day. A handbook for amateurs, collectors, and general readers (1888)
Lefebure, Ernest, 1835-, Cole, Alan S · Lond., H. Grevel and co. · leaf 198
II. LACES. 1 84 needlework samplers on bits of linen, were passed from hand to hand. This was soon found to be tedious and … Fig. 91. — Curtain border of darned net (laa's), French work of the sixteenth century. insufficient to satisfy a demand, the sources of which multiplied with rapidity. The assistance which embroiderers derived from
Embroidery · Lace and lace making
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