Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1897)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 356
d is still in existencethat is quite as early in date as that of the oldest needle-point variety. This would prove that there was little orno difference in the age of either invention, although TEXTILE FABRICS. 337 perhaps priority ought to be given to the needle-pointvariety. Guipure is a name… … Fig. 279.—Lappet ; Point dAlen9on ; Eighteenth Century. the pattern being formed of gimp bent into a flatteneddesign by the needle, and united where the forms toucheach other (^Fig. 281). The patterns in the early laceswere, as we have seen,purely geometric forms, such as squares with…
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