Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1897)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 355
which is a development of em-broidery. It is difficult to give the exact date of the 3 36 HISTORIC ORNAAfEXT. invention of needle-point lace, for in the earliest specimensof Italian work, in which the patterns are copied from thegeometric designs of the Venetian pattern-books, they areusually a… … Fig. 278.—Lappet Brussels; Eighteenth Centur}. tians, the pattern-books were published about the middle ofthe sixteenth ceniViry ior i7ierlefit a ptonibini\ or lace madewith leaden bobbins—probably a species of pillow-madelace—and some Italian work of this kind is still in existencethat is quite as…
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