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 33
er, all slant at the same angle. The heavy white thread referredto in a previous sentence is called a cable. A cable should be, roughly speaking,about eighteen inches long: but many workers prefer a very much shorter one.The loose, lower part, not necessarily the very end, of the cable is… … PLACING ONE END OF SKEIN OVER THE LEFT THUMB. SUGGESTIONS 31
Lace and lace making
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