item: #1 of 6 id: 15147 author: Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary) title: Beeton's Book of Needlework date: None words: 93105 flesch: 84 summary: The number of stitches depends on the length and size of the cotton; work double stitches round the circles at the place where both ends meet. Materials: Messrs. Walter Evans and Co.'s tatting cotton No. 30; tatting-pin No. 3. Begin by working separately a sufficient number of small rosettes, each composed of six ovals of double stitches and purl. keywords: 1st; chain stitch; circle; cotton; cotton round; crochet; crochet cotton; double; embroidery cotton; hole stitch; illustration; knit; lace; long; needle; pattern; point; purl; purl stitch; repeat; round; row; satin stitch; slip stitch; stitch work; stitches; tatting; throw; work cache: 15147.txt plain text: 15147.txt item: #2 of 6 id: 16605 author: Unknown title: The Ladies' Work-Book Containing Instructions In Knitting, Crochet, Point-Lace, etc. date: None words: 74163 flesch: 87 summary: 6th: 9 l., 5 ch., miss 1 loop, 9 l., * 5 ch., d.c. into 4th loop, 7 ch., 9 l., the 1st into 3rd loop from d.c. stitch in last row, repeat from *. 7th: 12 l., 5 ch., miss 1 loop, 12 l., * 5 ch., 1 l. into centre loop of 5 ch., 9 ch., 1 l. into 3rd loop of the 7 ch., from d.c. stitch in last row, 5 ch., 3 d.c. Having finished one round, see whether a s.c., d.c., or t.c. stitch begins the next; for s.c. make one chain, for d.c. three, for t.c. four; slip the needle out, and twist the chain, then continue working. keywords: 1st l.; 2nd l.; 4th l.; 7 l.; close; d.c; gold; l. stitches; miss; open; repeat; round; steel; white cache: 16605.txt plain text: 16605.txt item: #3 of 6 id: 22325 author: None title: The Art of Modern Lace Making date: None words: 17993 flesch: 75 summary: Not all people know the difference between point lace which is made with the needle, and pillow lace which is made with the bobbins--but much of the beautiful point lace of the present day is made with the needle, and its beauty stands a favorable comparison with the more costly pillow lace. Thus, in making Honiton and point lace, thread in twelve different degrees of fineness is used; and as the braids also vary in size, the thread must always be adapted to the braid. keywords: bars; battenburg; braid; bruxelles; design; fine; illustration; lace; making; net; point; point lace; stitches; thread; work cache: 22325.txt plain text: 22325.txt item: #4 of 6 id: 26120 author: Lowes, Emily Leigh title: Chats on Old Lace and Needlework date: None words: 37266 flesch: 69 summary: Messrs. Haywards (whose courtesy is as boundless as their reputation) are always pleased to show this and their other splendid specimen collections to those interested in old lace. With the aid of these little charts, a remembrance of the various styles and a few actual specimens of lace, and _a powerful magnifying glass_, it is not beyond the power of any reader of this little book to become expert in the identification of old lace. keywords: art; brussels; brussels lace; century; collection; design; early; embroideries; embroidery; england; english; fine; france; gold; great; ground; illustration; inches; italian; kensington; lace; making; mary; museum; needlework; old; period; picture; pillow; point; point lace; queen; silk; silver; south; specimens; stitch; stuart; thread; time; venetian; work; yards cache: 26120.txt plain text: 26120.txt item: #5 of 6 id: 38973 author: Goldenberg, Samuel L. title: Lace, Its Origin and History date: None words: 18829 flesch: 66 summary: Felkin, in his history of embroidery and lace, says that when pillow lace was invented--about the middle of the sixteenth century--the various kinds of point lace then in use had reached a high state of perfection. Among these are Point d'Angleterre, called such for mistaken reasons only, as it is not point lace nor made in England; and Duchesse, a name of comparatively recent date, though the style itself is of earlier origin, and was called Guipure façon Angleterre. keywords: century; design; france; ground; hand; illustration; lace; lace machine; machine; manufacture; needle; net; pattern; pillow lace; point; point lace; real; silk; thread; valenciennes; work cache: 38973.txt plain text: 38973.txt item: #6 of 6 id: 57009 author: Palliser, Bury, Mrs. title: History of Lace date: None words: 198688 flesch: 77 summary: Run_ lace is of a finer and lighter character. It has been suggested they derived the art of fine needlework from the Greeks who took refuge in Italy from the troubles of the Lower Empire; and what further confirms its Byzantine origin is, that those very places which kept up the closest intercourse with the Greek Empire are the cities where point lace was earliest made and flourished to the greatest extent.[145] A modern Italian author,[146] on the other hand, asserts that the Italians learned embroidery from the Saracens of Sicily, as the Spaniards acquired the art from the Moors of Granada or Seville, and brings forward, as proof of his theory, that the word to embroider, both in Italian and Spanish,[147] is derived from the Arabic, and no similar word exists in any other European language.[148] keywords: "--_inv; 4to; account; albert; alençon; anne; argentan; art; articles; author; aux; baby lace; beauty; bed; bib; black; blonde; bobbin lace; bobbins; bone lace; book; bride; brussels lace; burano; cap; catherine de; century; charles; children; church; château de; cited; city; cloth; colbert; collar; collection; come; commerce; cost; countess; countries; country; court; crown lace; custom; cut; d'angleterre; d'or; d'ouvrages de; d. de; dans; date; daughter; day; days; de france; de glen; de l'arsenal; de la; de lingerie; de modène; de médicis; de nat; de paris; de penthièvre; de point; de s.; de satin; de versailles; decès de; dentelle; des; description; designs; deux; devonshire; double; dresden lace; dress; duc de; duchesse de; duke; eighteenth; elizabeth; embroidery; end; england; english; entries; est; et de; etc; exhibition; fabrics; face; fair; fait; family; fashion; fil de; fine; flanders lace; flemish; flowers; fond; france lace; french; general; genoa; george; gimp lace; girls; gold lace; good; grand; ground; guipure; half; hamilton lace; hand; head; henry; high; history; holland; home; honiton lace; house; iii; illustration; inventory; irish; italian; italy; james; jean de; john; kind; lace; lace alb; lace bills; lace cravat; lace fabric; lace factory; lace fig; lace ground; lace head; lace industry; lace makers; lace making; lace manufacture; lace pattern; lace plate; lace ruffles; lace school; lace trade; lace work; lace workers; lacis; ladies; lady; lille lace; limerick lace; linen; livres; london; long; lord; louis; louise de; m. de; machine; madame de; makers; making; malines; manner; manufactures; marriage; mary; maréchal de; mechlin lace; mention; milan; miss; mrs; mss; museum; nat; near; needle; needlework lace; net; new; nottingham lace; number; open; order; origin; p. de; page; pair; parchment lace; paris lace; parts; passement; passement de; pattern; peasant lace; people; period; piece; pillow lace; plates; point coupé; point d'alençon; point d'angleterre; point d'argentan; point d'espagne; point lace; points; portrait; pour; present; price; princess; produce; punti; puy lace; quality; queen; qui; reign; rich; robe de; royal; ruffs; réseau; schools; scotland; second; set; seventeenth; sidenote; silk lace; silver lace; sir; sixteenth; society; son; spain; spanish; specimens; state; stitch; stitches; style; sur; tableau de; tambour lace; taste; term; thread lace; threads; time; title; torchon lace; town; tönder lace; une; valenciennes lace; value; venetian; venice; venice lace; venice point; victoria; vinciolo; vol; wadstena lace; wardrobe; way; wear; wearing; white; width; wife; wight lace; william; women; word; workers; working; workmanship; works; wrought; xiv; yard; years; young cache: 57009.txt plain text: 57009.txt