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History of lace (1902)

Palliser, Bury, Mrs., 1805-1878, Jourdain, Margaret, Dryden, Alice · New York : C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 52

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much as a dame-school child did her A B C in thecountry villages some years ago. Proud mothers causedthese chefs-doeuvre of their children to be framed andglazed ; hence many have come down to us hoarded up inold families uninjured at the present time. (Fig. 5.) A most important specimen of lacis… … IMPRESA OF QCEEN MARGARET OF NAVARRE IN LACIS.—(Mignerak.) Christ, in all fifty-six figures, surrounded by Latin inscrip-tions. It is assumed to be of English w^orkmanship. Some curious pieces of ancient lacis were also exhibited{clrc. 1866) at the Museum of South Kensington by Dr. Bock,of Bonn.…

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