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 225
re and more regular as lace-makingadvanced, until they suggested network and led to the making of established andrecognized grounds. There is no real rule for the making of Fond de Brides, except that it shouldbe so twisted, braided, or otherwise entwined as to form a more or less equaland evenly… … These eyeless spiders; that is, spider bodies without pin or other holes inthe centers, are made with six pairs to each spider. The pairs or legs, enteringat the upper left and upper right and leaving at the lower left and lower right,are twisted twice each between spiders; also the two legs…
Lace and lace making
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