Embroidery and lace: their manufacture and history from the remotest antiquity to the present day. A handbook for amateurs, collectors, and general readers
A handbook on embroidery and lace by Ernest Lefebure and Alan S. Cole, published in London in 1888 by H. Grevel and Co., written for amateurs, collectors and general readers covering lace history from antiquity onward. The four pictures are black-and-white photographic plates of lace fragments: a dense floral-ground border, a scalloped bobbin-style edging with flowers and paisley-like sprays, a loose cut-out piece with spiral motifs, and a black-ground panel of scrolling tendrils. A designer could take from them the interlaced ground patterns, scrolling tendril forms and light-on-dark contrast of historical lace.
