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Seven centuries of lace (1908)

Pollen, Maria Margaret, d. 1919 · London : W. Heinemann; New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 129

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DEEP FLOUNCE OF NEEDLE-POINT LACE A BRIDES PICOTEES,USUALLY CALLED POINT DE FRANCE This handsome design, in the rendering of which the play of contrast as between toile and simple modes is a salient feature, is composed of semi-realistic leaf, fruit and flower forms arranged symmetrically in groups… … Plate LII. PORTION OF LI. ENLARGED f.^ \^r ■-• r. ^-Mmf^fr Plate LIII. BORDKR OF NEEDLE-POINT RAISED LACE. CALLED SPANISH ROSE-POINT The fond or toile of this lace is partly made [of bobbin-made tape ; on this is raised work, and gimps as well as buttonhole-stitchedcordonnets of different…

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