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History of lace (1902)

Palliser, Bury, Mrs., 1805-1878, Dryden, Alice, Jourdain, Margaret · London : Sampson Low, Marston · leaf 160

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ite and black threads, in the IndiaMuseum, are apparently made in single pieces, and not as inHoniton laces, by separate flowers, which are subsequentlyplaced together for the ground to be worked in betweenthem.^^ A missionary taught a few Chinese women to makesilk lace from the wild silk of this… … Bobbin-Lace. —(Ceylon.) care to buy it. Acting Consul Trotnian also reported fromHangkow, that a large quantity of hand-made lace is madein the Roman Catholic orphanages there, but this was entirelyfor European consumption. White lace in China is not wovenby the natives, for white and blue being…

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