A History Of Hand-made Lace: : Dealing With The Origin Of Lace, The Growth Of The Great Lace Centres, The Mode Of Manufacture, The Methods Of Distinguishing And The Care Of Various Kinds Of Lace ...

The special object in writing this History of Hand-made Lace has been tosift and condense all available information in order to classify antiqueand modern lace specimens with regard to their origin, period, and modeof manufacture, as well as to trace the History of the rise and growth of thegreat lace centres.For a complete list of Works on Lace-making we must refer to our chapteron the Literature of Lace ; we are specially indebted to Mrs. Bury Palliser's"History of Lace"; "The Lace Catalogue" of South Kensington Museum,revised by Alan S. Cole ; Lady Layard's translation of " The Technical Historyof Venetian and Burano Laces "; and Felkin's " Machine-wrought Lace."

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Table of Contents:

Copyright

PREFACE

LIST OF PLATES

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I.THE EVOLUTION OF LACE.

CHAPTER II.ANECDOTAL HISTORY OF MEDIAEVAL LACE.

CHAPTER V.ANECDOTAL HISTORY OF LACE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

CHAPTER VI.ECCLESIASTICAL LACE.

CHAPTER VII.LACE FANS

CHAPTER VIII.PEASANT LACES

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