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History of lace (1902)

Palliser, Bury, Mrs., 1805-1878, Dryden, Alice, Jourdain, Margaret · London : Sampson Low, Marston · leaf 62

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flowers are connected by irregular threadsovercast (buttonhole stitch), and sometimes worked overwith pearl loops (picot). Such are the points of Venice andSpain and most of the guipures. To these uniting^ threads,called by our lace-makers pearl ties —old Eandle Holme ^*styles them coxcombs —the… … Passement au Fdseau.—(Vinciolo, Edition 1623.) MERLtTTi a Iiombi.m.—(Parasole, 1616.) and then either worked in or sewn on (applique), as inBrussels. The open-work stitches introduced into the pattern arecalled modes, jours ; l)y our Devonshire workers, fillings. All lace is terminated, by two…

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