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Old lace : a handbook for collectors; an account of the different styles of lace, their history, characteristics & manufacture (1908)

Jourdain, Margaret · London : B. T. Batsford · leaf 140

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s of this type of lace. I The first improvement in the primitive spindle was found in the constructionof the hand-wheel, in which the spindle mounted in a frame, was fixed horizontallyand rotated by a band passing round it and a large wheel set in the same frame-work. Such a wheel became known in… … Plate XLVII.

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