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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 86

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h interlaced threads on apillow, though by knotting and not by plaiting asin the modern Pillow lace. It no doubt grew outof the knotted fringes that we see represented inByzantine mosaics, or it may claim a still earlier originin the same fringes as represented in ancient Assyriansculpture. During… … K Macrame, or Iunto a Gruppo. ORIGIN OF PILLOW LACE (>-] The specimen shown in Ilkistration XIII. wasbought in Italy some fifty years ago, but the worksince then has been introckiced into this country,and so many books of patterns and directions havebeen pubkshed that any detailed description of…

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