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Point and pillow lace : a short account of various kinds ancient and modern, and how to recognize them (1899)

Sharp, Mary · New York : E.P. Dutton ; London : J. Murray · leaf 184

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er cover, now kept in a frame,has a rather wider band of a more ambitious design,but of the same style of work. There seems everyreason to believe that this relic is authentic, and asit might very well date from Elizabethan times, itis possible that our great poet himself may have seenor even used… … u i65 HONITON LACE 165 collections of patterns of embroidery by industrioushousewives. Illustration XXXIX. represents part ofone in the collection of the South KensingtonMuseum, with two patterns of Cut-work, ratherclumsy and heavy in style, but, as will be seen,worked in the usual Italian manner.…

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