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 308
ection displays variedcombinations of six ways of twisting and plaiting threads. Themesh is very large and open ; a coarse outlining thread is used to givedefinition to the simple pattern (Plate XCV.). At Coggeshall in Essex tambour lace was worked, and a specimenin the Victoria and .Albert Museum… … MIDLAND AND OTHER ENGLISH LACES. I03 place where tambour is produced in England. The pattern is workedin chain-stitch upon a foundation of bobbin net by means of a finecrochet hook screwed into a bone handle. The net is first stretchedevenly upon a frame. Originally this frame was round, like the…
Lace and lace making
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