The woman's book : dealing practically with the modern conditions of home-life, self-support, education, opportunties, and every-day problems (1894)
New York : C. Scribner's sons · leaf 269
27. Not less interesting is a deshiladoupon coarser unbleached linen, with around thread, decorated with a broadbaud geometrically treated, betweentwo narrower ones, containing star pat-terns alternating with heraldic lions.The narrow oblong of linen left in thecentre of this piece is ornamented by… … A Bit of Convent Lace. 247 tine drawn-work on finest linen, or convent lace, as it is called by thedealers, selected to show the variety ofdesigns often lavished upon their speci-mens. The grotesques, originatingin imitations of imaginary animalsfound figured in Italian grottoes, hereinclude, as…
Women · Home Economics · Interior decoration
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