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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 97

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VENETIAN NEEDLEPOINT AND BURANO LACE. S-shaped motifs are frequent, and upon details of the pattern knot-work is used as ornament. This type is always ornamented with ahanging pattern, or one in which the arrangement of the details isconspicuously vertical, which was more appropriate to the folds…

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