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 199
, as a rule, and more suitable for theornamentation of household linen than for personal wear. English Laces. The laces made in England in the fifteenth century, besides cut-work anddrawn-work, which are rather lace-like embroideries than lace, consisted of narrowplaited and twisted thread borders.… … Border of Bobbin Lace, called Buckinghamshire Trolly Lace, 2 inches wide ; earlynineteenth century. The design resembles that of some of the Mechlin laces madeearly in the eighteenth century ; the reseau is, however, composed of six-pointedstar meshes. they were called—for ornamenting the edges of…
Lace and lace making
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