A treatise on lace-making, embroidery, and needle-work with Irish flax threads (1892)
Bradford, Mary E, Barbour Brothers Company · [New York] : Barbour Brothers Co. · leaf 78
ains detailed instructions for working,which it seems unnecessary to repeat. One fact, however, cannotbe too often or too strongly impressed upon our friends — the ap-plication being made to laces of every description : the flax threadsshould alone and always be used. It is extremely unwise, to say… … Lace Desk. (Fig. 1.) none of the smoothness and lustre characteristic of Barbours Irishflax threads. The lace-desk used by the writer has a revolving upholsteredcylinder, sufficiently long to allow the weaving of a wide pattern.The bobbins are used in pairs, and numbered from the left as they 76…
Lace and lace making · Embroidery
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