Chats on Old Lace and Needlework

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he first-named town it is said that the lace called "Argentella" was made, but this is extremel

of this lace can even now easily be secured at a fair price. The laces known as "Pillow Guipure" are somewhat open to question, the authorities at South Kensington Museum agreeing to differ, and labelling most of

much inferior kind is made with a woven braid or tape, the turns of the pattern being made in twisted or puckered braid, much after the style of the handmade Point lace made in England some thirty year

ity about it. Much of this fine lace was worked for church vestments and altar cloths. Various heraldic devices are frequently introduced, surrounded wit

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e earliest remains of antiquity a fringe often decorates the edges of garments, curtains, and floor-covering, and seems to be a natural and

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is exceptionally fine. The work is so well known, owing to its revival during the last thirty years in a coarse form, that it needs

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