Beeton's housewife's treasury of domestic information : comprising complete and practical instructions on the house and its furniture, artistic decoration economy, toilet, children, etiquette, domestic and fancy needlework, dressmaking and millinery, and all other household matters : with every requisite direction to secure the comfort, elegance, and prosperity of the home : a companion volume to "Mrs. Beeton's book of household management" : profusely illustrated (1879)
Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary), 1836-1865 · London ; New York : Ward, Lock & Co., Warwick House, Salisbury Square, E.C. · leaf 895
Pancy Needlework. 841 a manner that might be excusable in braiding, but that in lace-makingis simply outrageous. We have before us a book of patterns which was issued at the time when theworking of point lace (we cannot permit ourselves to call it so without theimplied protest of inverted commas)…
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