The romance of lace, its historical background, its present manufacture, its varieties and uses (1920)
Zion Lace Industries, Marshall Field & Company · Chicago, Zion lace industries, owned and operated by Marshall Field & company · leaf 42
, and are nowpopularly thought of as of Irish origin.Very fine Irish laces are now machine-made. MALTESE A bobbin pattern lace made in white orblack silk, originally from the island ofMalta. The earliest Maltese lace was ofcoarse pattern and texture, but since theimportation of Genoese lacemakers,… … A Zion Diamond Mesh Fa/ trousseaux, sets of undergarments, and allmanner of trimming. MALINES OR MECHLIN An extremely fine and very costly pillowlace originating in Malines, Belgium. Anarrow, flat thread or cord outlines thefine pattern on a net ground of hexagonalmesh. This lace is not applique,…
Lace and lace making
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