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 22
times ; secondly, that lace derivedits origin from netting, and not, as many imagine, fromembroidery. On the opening of a Scandinavian barrow near Ware-ham, in Dorsetshire, a small piece of gold lace was broughtto light. It was of course much decayed. Its old lozengedesign, however, could be… … Saracenic Drawn Linen Work, the earliest form ofOpen Work Ornamentation. From a Tomb inEgypt, tenth or eleventh century B.C. depicted on pottery as trimming the coats of the ancient Danes. The borders of the coat are edged with a network pattern of the same design ; possibly ihe knowledge of the…
Lace and lace making
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