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History of lace (1902)

Palliser, Bury, Mrs., 1805-1878, Jourdain, Margaret, Dryden, Alice · New York : C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 53

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ree yards in length. The design portrays theApostles, with angels and saints. These two last-mentionedobjects are of the sixteenth century. When used for altar-cloths, bed-curtains, or coverlets, toproduce a greater effect it was the custom to alternate thelacis with squares of plain linen. An… … Sini>KK\vuKK, tiiikte:;ntii ckntukv.—(BockColl. South Kensington Museum). SIIDKKWOKK, KOUKTKKNTH OKXTIKV.— (Bock Coll. South Kensington Museum.) France. Jean Godard, in his poem on the Glove,^** alludingto this occupation, says :— Une femuie gantee cenvre en tapisserieEn raizeaux deliez et toute…

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