Examples of household taste . ralshaft are surmountedby figures of the fourEvangelists, admirablyconceived and exe-cuted. At the baseof the columns arecouchant lions, facing outwards, vigorouslymodeled and instinctwith life. Devices ofan ecclesiastical char-acter are introducedinto the enrichment ofthe panels and detail-work of the construc-tion, and add to theornamental effect ofthe whole. The excellence ofthe Lace Fabrics madeby Messrs. Heyman &Alexander, of Not-tingham, ENGLAND,andexhibited at the Cen-tennial, worthily main-tained the reputationof that town for itsfamous NottinghamLace. On
Examples of household taste . ralshaft are surmountedby figures of the fourEvangelists, admirablyconceived and exe-cuted. At the baseof the columns arecouchant lions, facing outwards, vigorouslymodeled and instinctwith life. Devices ofan ecclesiastical char-acter are introducedinto the enrichment ofthe panels and detail-work of the construc-tion, and add to theornamental effect ofthe whole. The excellence ofthe Lace Fabrics madeby Messrs. Heyman &Alexander, of Not-tingham, ENGLAND,andexhibited at the Cen-tennial, worthily main-tained the reputationof that town for itsfamous NottinghamLace. On page 446we engrave one of thespecimens exhibited bythe above-named firm,a Lace Curtain of acharmingly light andgraceful design, prettily and tastefully disposed over the surface of the net-workin which it is wrought. There is a suggestion of the Pompeiian style of deco-ration in the vases and in the groups of conventionally treated flowers andferns rising one above the other in graceful convolutions; and these are happily. Bronze Candelabra : Luton, Paris. INDUSTRIAL ART. 451 harmonized with the lattice-work border about which flower-garlands and vinesare wreathed and interwoven. In contrast with this strong and serviceable fabric is the delicate, web-like Lace Shawl, illustratedon page 447, which wasone of the many superbexamples of this kinddisplayed in the Collec-tive Exhibit of Pallisser, in her in-troduction to the LaceCatalogue of the SouthKensington Museum,oives an interesting ac-count of this says of Brussels lacethat it is the most cele-brated of all manufac-tures, distinguished forthe beauty of its ground,the perfection of itsflowers, and the eleganceof its patterns. Thethread is of extraordinaryfineness, made of the flaxof Brabant. It is spununderground, for contactwith the air causes it tobreak, being so fine asalmost to escape thesight,—the lace-spinner
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