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 38
y sewn over, either with silk or linen thread,thus having the appearance of a network of smallsquare meshes, which forms the ground of the patternleft in the plain linen. The design thus groundedwas of necessity angular, but occasionally thisangularity Is corrected by means of a silk or linenthread… … o S-l H o D 17 DARNED NETTING 19 The subjects of the designs are often extremelyquaint—horses, dogs, birds, besides mythical animals,were most ambitiously attempted, as is shown inIllustration III. The frequency with which repre-sentations especially of horses occur reminds onethat they are to this…
Lace and lace making
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