. Decorative textiles; an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, walls and floors, including damasks, brocades and velvets, tapestries, laces, embroideries, chintzes, cretones, drapery and furniture trimmings, wall papers, carpets and rugs, tooled and illuminated leathers. O a o So. 1;.- •* Hi ^l-i LACES Filet it alien starts with a coarse hand-knotted square-niesh netfoundation, on which the closed or toile parts of the pattern are darnedin (Plate V b, c). Buratto is a woven substitute for the knottednet—a square-niesh net made in gauze weave with warps that twistin pairs around the wef
. Decorative textiles; an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, walls and floors, including damasks, brocades and velvets, tapestries, laces, embroideries, chintzes, cretones, drapery and furniture trimmings, wall papers, carpets and rugs, tooled and illuminated leathers. O a o So. 1;.- •* Hi ^l-i LACES Filet it alien starts with a coarse hand-knotted square-niesh netfoundation, on which the closed or toile parts of the pattern are darnedin (Plate V b, c). Buratto is a woven substitute for the knottednet—a square-niesh net made in gauze weave with warps that twistin pairs around the wefts. Dratoncork net is made by drawing thealternate threads of scrim or etamine, and binding the intersectionswith the needle. BOBBIN VERSUS NEEDLE Bobbin lace (Plate VI) like punto in aria is made on a pillowcarrying the pattern that guides the worker; but instead of beingmade with a needle that in buttonhole stitch ties together the dif-ferent outline threads, it is made with numerous bobbins that twisttogether or plait the threads without the limitations imposed by theloom, or by the needle. Moreover, bobbin lace is much less expen-sive to make than needlepoint. The German claim to the in\ention of bobbin lace is not sup-ported by the facts, although in 1884 at Annaberg, in
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