Seven centuries of lace . Plate LVI. CAP OF NEEDLE-POINT LACE A RESEAU The design coniist? of a waved opcQ ornamental riband device crossing a spray of conventional flowers. This lace may be distinguished from Alen^on by the use of a single thread instead of a buttonholed stitch in the cordonuet as well as by the make and lay of the meshed ground, point de Venise k reseau. The style of the design is borrowed from the French of the latter part of the seventeenth century, 2 ft. 8 in. x 6 in. Venctiati, late 17th century. Plate iMl. A BORDER OF NEEDLEPOINT LACE, VENETLAN-^ POINT A RESEAU The lead

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Seven centuries of lace . Plate LVI. CAP OF NEEDLE-POINT LACE A RESEAU The design coniist? of a waved opcQ ornamental riband device crossing a spray of conventional flowers. This lace may be distinguished from Alen^on by the use of a single thread instead of a buttonholed stitch in the cordonuet as well as by the make and lay of the meshed ground, point de Venise k reseau. The style of the design is borrowed from the French of the latter part of the seventeenth century, 2 ft. 8 in. x 6 in. Venctiati, late 17th century. Plate iMl. A BORDER OF NEEDLEPOINT LACE, VENETLAN-^ POINT A RESEAU The leading masses of the pattern undulate, and between the undulations are either conventional leaves or flowers filled in with simplediaper modes and more openly arranged bndes picotSes. 3 ft. 5 m. ,,,„,„„,,, lau nih century

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