Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1897)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 362
3 Madame Bellario, assisted by the patronage of the Queenof Italy and other members of the royal family. The varietymade is the needle-point, and the designs are mostly goodcopies of the old Venetian and seventeenth-century Frenchpatterns. Machine-made lace has been brought to an ad-vanced state of… … Fig. 285.—Irish Point; Modern. and lace nets were first made on these machines about1770. Heathcote, of Nottingham, invented the bobbin netmachine, and Leaver invented the lace machine which isstill in use with various improvements and modifications.Almost any kind of lace can now be imitated by…
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