A history of hand-made lace. Dealing with the origin of lace, the growth of the great lace centres, the mode of manufactures, the methods of distiuguishing and the care of various kinds of lace (1900)
Jackson, Emily, 1861- · New York, Scribner's · leaf 267
A thin and soft variety of muslin, not dressed with any kind of stiffening. Picots, (No. 2) on Bars. NAPERY. — House linen ; especially applied to table linen. NEEDLE. — A pointed instrument, sharp at one end, and perforated at the other to receive the thread which it is designed to draw through… … that adorns the priest's alb; it was used Picots used to enrich Needle-point Lace. also to border the robes of knights. ORRIS.— A corruption of Arras. The term is used now to denote galloon for
Lace and lace making -- History
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