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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 51

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CUTWORK (RETICELLA) AND PUNTO IN ARIA. 17 used for needlepoint lace. The designs to be worked for collars, bed-hangings, and insertions in pillow-cases consist of scrolls, arabesques,birds, animals, flowers, herbs, and grasses. In fact all the earliest engraved pattern-books contain only designsfor…

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