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 37
n, securing the threads,one bobbin of a pair, when pulled, pulls up its mate on the other end of the thread.To wind sticks in advance and keep them until needed without tangling, one can 34 A LACE GUIDE FOB MAKERS AND COLLECTORS wind each bobbin rigbt up to the middle of the thread, there making… … OLD EHODE ISLAND WHALE-IVORY REEL, WINDER OR SWIFT.(From the Authors collection.) CHAPTER III EXPLANATIONS AND NOMENCLATURE The most perfect must by reason of its very perfection lack the impressionof life which the very faults and irregularities of human handiwork can aloneproduce. There are two…
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