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 24
I. EMBROIDERY. 10 pattern is produced (see the outline sprigs and spray in fig. 6). This skeleton thread work serves as the scaffolding, as one might call it, upon and between which the stitches, for the shapes and ground connecting them together, are cast, and so wrought into needlepoint lace.… … Fig. 6.— Parchment and pattern showing the skeleton thread pattern and needlepoint lace in progress. analogy to those in embroidery, it will have been per- ceived that the work thus produced is altogether different from embroidery, since it has started from no previously provided textile fabric.…
Embroidery · Lace and lace making
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