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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 42

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t is thus produced by verysimple means, and it is to be regretted that whenthis work was revived a little while ago under therather inappropriate name of Guipure dArt, suchvery poor patterns should have been preferred tothose of the beautiful Italian work of the kind inexistence. This work has a… … 21 EMBROIDERED NEEDLE-LACE 23 PUNTO TAGLIATO {Fr. Point-coupe, Eng. Cut-work) is an advance on Drawn-work. It is made by cutting-squares or rectangular spaces out of the linen andfillino- them with needle stitches worked on trans-verse threads. In this work the patterns aregeometrical, but they are…

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