Point and pillow lace; a short account of various kinds, ancient and modern, and how to recognise them (1905)
Sharp, Mary, 1903- · London: J. Murray · leaf 166
n more sparsely over the netground. Owing to the naturalistic taste of the dayalso, the finely composed conventional ornament ofan earlier date was abandoned in favour of repre-sentations of natural flowers. A still later but betterstyle of Brussels Lace is the POINT DUCHESSE. In this the pattern… … BRUSSELS NEEDLE-POINT 139 The name of this Lace is of comparatively recentdate, but the style itself existed earlier, under thedesignation of 1 Guipure fa^on Angleterre. BRUSSELS NEEDLE-POINT LACE. Brussels is the only Flemish centre for the manu-facture of Needle-point lace. In Flanders…
Lace and lace making
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