Chats on Old Lace and Needlework

es-Charts of various R

s, more especially of the Belgian class, there is a mixed lace, the "toile" or pattern, being w

er order belong the early Macramé lace, called "Punto a Groppo"; the Genoese and Milanese laces of Italy; Mechlin and Brussels

e last hundred years, have frequently a ground of machine lace, and thus, strictly speaking, are not lace at all, but only embroideries or appliqués. The machine-made ground can be distinguished by sense of touch alone. If we take a piece of hand-made net between the finger and thumb and slightly roll it, it will gather in a soft

s, and will prove an infallible guide in distinguishing

bing the method of making lace. Without burdening the

int and Bobbin lace. In the former, they are made entirely of a strand or two of thread thrown across, and then butto

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edge used to finish wov

nd the lace-maker's thread. Sometimes they have been made very ornamental with carving and other decorations, and frequently have "gingles," or a

y with buttonhole stitches, or made separately and then stitched down. The Cordonnet is one of the

ticeable in the raised Venetian laces, in which sometimes the l

in scallop-form, chiefl

tern in Needlepoint and Pillow lace are filled in with various ornamental stitches, showing an amazing variety o

ith Needlepoint or Pillow network. Other names for these are "Réseaux" and "Fonds." The m

me however is applied to all Pillow la

ops used to ornament

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