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 90
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… … ORIGIN OF PILLOW LACE 6; The specimen shown in Illustration XIII. wasbought in Italy some fifty years ago, but the worksince then has been introduced into this country,and so many books of patterns and directions havebeen published that any detailed description of itseems unnecessary here. The name…
Lace and lace making
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