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 196
The right-hand pair is here used to make the picot. It is twisted threetimes and followed by an ordinary picot as explained under Line E, Column 13.To complete it, one crosses the two threads of the pair, takes the exterior threadalone and places it in the reverse direction over and around the pin.… … Eight threads enter at each side of the top of every spider, cloth-stitching inconsecutive order through each other. Each spider is closed in the same way,but reversed, at its base. At the upper left of the spider inside the innermostpair, a pin is placed and then this pair linen-stitches through…
Lace and lace making
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