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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 11

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gesprepaid. Contributions must be prepaid by the sender. Detailedinformation concerning sale of work will be found in No. 4. Aprice-list of all patterns, etc., used in the Prize Needle-work Serieshas been prepared, and will be sent to any lady desiring it, togetherwith a table of contents for the… … Few people appreciate the antiquity of the use of flax fibre inspinning and weaving. Recent discoveries of the remains of theSwiss lake villages, which go back to a remote period of the worlds history, reveal the fact that flax wasproduced by these ancient lakedwellers of the stone age, and wasspun…

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