. History of lace. To face page 22. CUT-WORK 23 to be reproduced in samcloths, ^^ as samplars were thentermed, and young ladies worked at them diligently as aproof of their competency in the arts of cut-work, lacis andreseuil, much as a dame-school child did her A B C in thecountry villages some years ago. Proud mothers causedthese chefs-doeuvre of their children to be framed andglazed ; hence many have come down to us hoarded up inold families uninjured at the present time. (Fig. 5.) A most important specimen of lacis was exhibited at theArt International Exhibition of 1874, by Mrs. Hailstone
. History of lace. To face page 22. CUT-WORK 23 to be reproduced in samcloths, ^^ as samplars were thentermed, and young ladies worked at them diligently as aproof of their competency in the arts of cut-work, lacis andreseuil, much as a dame-school child did her A B C in thecountry villages some years ago. Proud mothers causedthese chefs-doeuvre of their children to be framed andglazed ; hence many have come down to us hoarded up inold families uninjured at the present time. (Fig. 5.) A most important specimen of lacis was exhibited at theArt International Exhibition of 1874, by Mrs. Hailstone, oWalton Hall, an altar frontal 14 feet by 4 feet, executed inpoint conte, representing eight scenes from the Passion of Fig.
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