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Lacis, practical instructions in filet brodé or darning on net: (1909)

Simpson, Isabel A · London, S. Low, Marston & co. ltd. · leaf 116

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Lacis From numberless references in the Bible, from the carvings and pictures on the tombs of the long since happy dead, and even from the contents of the tombs themselves, we have abundant evidence of the favour in which nets were held. … Illustration 62 Bas-relief Nets. Figures of people have been discovered in Chaldasan tombs on whose heads nets have been found still confining their luxuriant hair. The following illustration (64) of the beautiful E'T'E, wife of Sechemka, Superintendent of Agriculture, whose statue is now in the…

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