A lace guide for makers and collectors; with bibliography and five-language nomenculture, profusely illus. with halftone plates and key designs (1920)
Whiting, Gertrude · New York, E.P. Dutton & company · leaf 186
This plain, but pretty ground, is procured by twisting once, crossing,pinning, twisting twice, and then crossing to close. It is made on the oblique. D= =□ RULES FOB MAKING 183 LINE F, COL. 7,Valenciennes Mixte. … The making of this ground is similar to that of the square-meshed Vals:see Line A, Column 7. After the braided sides have been made, one shouldweave the linen-stitch as in the square-meshed Val, not twisting these twopairs before cloth-stitching; but twisting them both once after the linen-stitchis…
Lace and lace making
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