Embroidery and lace: their manufacture and history from the remotest antiquity to the present dayA handbook for amateurs, collectors and general readers . Fig. 86.—Design for a drawn threadwork(belonging to Madame Franck). THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 179. Fig. 87.—Short-stitch embroidery on linen, the ornament being left inthe linen, in the character of patterns usually done in drawn thread-work, sixteenth century (Mitsce des Arts dccoratifs). the pattern, would sometimes be broken by working i8o II. LACES. into them little delicate devices such as stars or crosseddiagonals, or making little loops
Embroidery and lace: their manufacture and history from the remotest antiquity to the present dayA handbook for amateurs, collectors and general readers . Fig. 86.—Design for a drawn threadwork(belonging to Madame Franck). THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 179. Fig. 87.—Short-stitch embroidery on linen, the ornament being left inthe linen, in the character of patterns usually done in drawn thread-work, sixteenth century (Mitsce des Arts dccoratifs). the pattern, would sometimes be broken by working i8o II. LACES. into them little delicate devices such as stars or crosseddiagonals, or making little loops or picots upon theirthreads. This darning work rwas easy of execution; and, the stitches being regu-lated by counting the meshes,effective geometric shapescould be produced ; less skil-ful embroiderers excelled inthis more than in the drawnthreadwork. Small squares oflacis could be worked sepa-rately, and this characteristic ofthe process found much favourwith women, who applied them-selves to making all sorts oftextile ornaments for religiousand secular use. Altar clothsand baptismal napkins, as wellas bed coverlets and table-cloths, were decorated withthese squares of net embroidery,inserted most often into largersquares of plain linen, w
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