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A history of hand-made lace : dealing with the origin of lace, the growth of the great lace centres, the mode of manufacture, the methods of distinguishing and the care of various kinds of lace (1900)

Jackson, Emily, 1861- · London : L. Upcott Gill ; New York : C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 107

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ow sleeves, and the cap black wired net, or lace, which standsout from the head like a halo. The dark bodice is laced across the chemisette withcoloured ribbons. Kerchiefs are the head-coverings of the Bulgarian peasant, who twists thesimple bright-tinted square most deftly, so that it becomes a… … Lace-trimmed Cap of thePeasants in the neigh-bourhood of Coutances,France. emphasising its want of width. A zouave in scarletor black, with loose elbow sleeves, opens over a whitechemisette. In Portugal the peasants also use kerchiefs ontheir heads, wearing a broad-brimmed straw hatover for shade.…

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