Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, Macmillan & Co., ltd. · leaf 245
reecenturies ; nor has thelace pillow and methodof making the lace. The pillow is a circular base-board stuffed to form a cushion, round, ovoid, orcylindrical. When in use, it is held upon the knees.On this pillow a piece of parchment is fixed, and onthis parchment a pattern is pricked in small… … Mrs. James Duane. Commodes, Mobs, and Pinners 549 forms a thin neck to the bobbin and leaves roomfor the thread to be tied round it. Sheeps trotters,called bones, were used before bobbins. Eachbobbin has but one thread. By the interlacing ofthese threads around the pins, the lace ground ismade,…
Costume · United States -- Social Life and Customs · United States -- Social life and customs To 1775
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