Palliser, Bury, Mrs., 1805-1878, Dryden, Alice, Jourdain, Margaret · London : Sampson Low, Marston · leaf 180
on the subject is, that the making cloths of chequeredlace formed for a time the favourite employment of Moorishmaidens, and they are still to be purchased, yellow with age,in the African cities of Tangier and Tetuan. They may bedistinguished from those worked by C-hristian fingers from ^… … Jewish.—Made in Syria. The pattern is only modern Torchon, but the knotting stitch is their peculiar tradition. Same size. Plate XXXIIT.
Lace and lace making -- History
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