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 18
l the handwork it imitates: In machine work the operatingforce is uniform, continually the same, hence there is always an equaltension in the threads and a perfectly regular tissue is produced, butat the same time perfectly flat. Handwork, on the contrary, is boundto be irregular because, though… … INTRODUCTION. 5 advantage of this regularity by alluding to the uneven surface of hand-woven cashmere shawls, which present an infinite succession of wavesand little imperceptible roughnesses which catch the light and castshadows, making a surface vastly different from anything a machinecan…
Lace and lace making
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