Antique laces of American collectors : Volume 2 / text by Frances Morris & Marian Hague
A 1920 New York catalogue of antique lace owned by American collectors, published for the Needle and Bobbin Club by Frances Morris and Marian Hague, with text on lace from France, Italy and the Netherlands. The pictures are halftone reproductions of 17th-century portraits in which sitters wear deep lace collars, cuffs and caps, plus a close view of a lace border. A designer could take from them the tonal range of dark garments set against lace edging, and the way ruffled and scalloped lace shapes a figure's silhouette.
