A study of the artist's way of working in the various handicrafts and arts of design (1905)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Dodd, Mead and company · leaf 316
EMBROIDERY than the open mesh around, and even where the surface of the leaf is generally very open there is a rim or cordon around the edge, which outlines it firmly and holds the pattern together, even if not the fabric (see Figs. 92 and 94). The great lace industry of Europe hardly took shape… … Fig. 92. Needle-made lace, so-called Brussels point Previous to that time there was much drawn work, that in which threads were pulled out of the piece of linen, and the little openings so made caught with the needle and hemstitched as it were, making little lines of open mesh to alternate with the…
Art · Decorative arts
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