Old world lace; or, A guide for the lace lover (1920)
Blum, Clara M · New York, E. P. Dutton & co · leaf 79
a much used lace today, and is probablymore typically English than any of the others, and asit was generally made in Devonshire, it is also knownbv that name. 75 J^ces of Ireland Ireland, too, had her laces, and they need no intro-duction, for they are probably the one type familiar toall. The… … Illustration No. /OIrish Crochet. Imitating Venetian needle point; 19th century lace-making first started, about 1850, in the conventsof Ireland, the nuns turned their first efforts to copying,as closely as the crochet stitch permitted, the Venetianneedle point. This accounts for the remarkable…
Lace and lace making
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