Point and pillow lace; a short account of various kinds, ancient and modern, and how to recognise them (1905)
Sharp, Mary · London, J. Murray · leaf 176
dle-point traditions. The beauti-ful modern Lace known as Point de Gaze is madeentirely with the needle, and is grounded with itsown reseau. Partly to suit modern taste in design,and partly perhaps from economy of work whenlabour is so dear, the execution is much more openand slight than in the… … Modern Brussels Needle-point—Point de Gaze. U 145 POINT DE GAZE 147 shading, and the open parts are very prettily en-riched with dottlno^. If to those who dello^ht inthe soft richness of the work of former times theexecution of the Point de Gaze seems somewhatthin and loose, and the style of the…
Lace and lace making
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