A lace guide for makers and collectors; with a bibliography and five-language nomenclature, profusely illus. with halftone plates and key designs (1920)
Whiting, Gertrude · New York, E.P. Dutton & company · leaf 153
to the line of the braid, not to one side, as that wouldpull the plait to one side, out of plumb. Two of the braid threads are usedfor making the picots—the two that fall conveniently towards the lower side.The right-hand thread is wrapped first under, then over the pin; the left-handone first… … Two pairs make the long, vertical spider or fish (as the name indicates)bodj, which is not twisted except at the two ends. It is made of cloth-stitcheslike a spider, but is not pulled up around a central pin as is that animal. Theweaver or horizontal pair cloth-stitches all the way across the lace…
Lace and lace making
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