. A history of hand-made lace : dealing with the origin of lace, the growth of the great lace centres, the mode of manufacture, the methods of distinguishing and the care of various kinds of lace . Old Lille Lace (eighteenth century) made on the pillowwith bobbins. It is especially admired for its clearground. A DICTIONARY OF LACE. 177 Limerick Lace. This is now recovering its prestige, which was lost in the sixties throughthe emigration to America of many of the best lace-makers, The manufacturewas commenced in 1829, when Charles Walker, a man who had been educated. Cut Cambric and Needle-wor
. A history of hand-made lace : dealing with the origin of lace, the growth of the great lace centres, the mode of manufacture, the methods of distinguishing and the care of various kinds of lace . Old Lille Lace (eighteenth century) made on the pillowwith bobbins. It is especially admired for its clearground. A DICTIONARY OF LACE. 177 Limerick Lace. This is now recovering its prestige, which was lost in the sixties throughthe emigration to America of many of the best lace-makers, The manufacturewas commenced in 1829, when Charles Walker, a man who had been educated. Cut Cambric and Needle-work, called Lace, made at Limerick. 10 inches wide; nineteenth century. N 178 HISTORY OF HAND-MADE LACE. for the Church, married the daughter of a lace manufacturer in London, and wentover to Ireland, taking with him twenty-four girls as teachers. They began theindustry in Limerick. He employed travellers all over the United Kingdom, andmany people of note gave great encouragement to the manufacture. The fabric,which is rather embroidery than lace, in the strict sense of the term, is of threevarieties: Tambour, which is made by working upon machine-made net a designin chain stitch; Run, in which lines of a pattern are run with a coarser thread uponthe net ; and Applique, in which cambric or net is laid over net, the design beingformed by overcasting the pattern, and the background being then cut away sothat the foundation shows through and thickens the design. Limoges Lace. A guipure made at Limoges. Guipure Lace is described under that heading. Luneville Lace.
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