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Point and pillow lace; a short account of various kinds ancient and modern, and how to recognize them (1905)

Sharp, Mary · New York, E.P. Dutton & Co.; London, J. Murray · leaf 140

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unfortunately of allothers the easiest to imitate by machinery ; indeed,only workers themselves, it has been said, can detectthe very slight difference that exists between ordinaryValenciennes edging, as made on the pillow, and thebest that is produced by the loom. Under thesecircumstances, as… … Blonde.119

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