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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 246

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geof the Czarina. Old Venice point has there been reproduced, and it is soldunder the name of Point de Moscow; every stitch is faithfully copied, and finethread of English make is used. Peter the Great founded a silk lace manufacture at Novgorod. In the reign ofCatherine II. there were twelve… … Russian Needle-point Lace, a Brides Picotees, 3$ inches wide ; nineteenth century. Given by HerRoyal Highness the Duchess of Coburg to the South Kensington Museum. The threads in the old drawn and cut works are covered over with coloured silksof deep red, orange, and bright yellows, dull blues and…

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