. Handbook of ornament; a grammar of art, industrial and architectural designing in all its branches, for practical as well as theoretical use. The Fringe, and the Valence. Plate 119. 192 FREE Plate 120. The Lace Border. The Lace Border. 193 Lace belongs in most cases to the Free-ornaments. More rarelyit is manufactured as an Insertion, with the character of a ribbon, orfor independent use as a Shawl or Wrap. Compared with Fringe, theapplications of Lace are freer and more varied, and by no means confined to the character of a pendant termination. The reader may beassumed to be acq
. Handbook of ornament; a grammar of art, industrial and architectural designing in all its branches, for practical as well as theoretical use. The Fringe, and the Valence. Plate 119. 192 FREE Plate 120. The Lace Border. The Lace Border. 193 Lace belongs in most cases to the Free-ornaments. More rarelyit is manufactured as an Insertion, with the character of a ribbon, orfor independent use as a Shawl or Wrap. Compared with Fringe, theapplications of Lace are freer and more varied, and by no means confined to the character of a pendant termination. The reader may beassumed to be acquainted with the various uses of lace. If we exclude the allied Crochet-work as not strictly belongingto this section, we shall find that the manufacture of Lace may bedivided into two groups: (1) sewed or Point lace; and (2) bobbin orPillow lace. The former method has chiefly been practised in Italy,Spain, Ireland, and France; the latter in England, France, the Nether-lands, Schleswig, Switzerland, and Saxony. The chief centres of thelace industry were and to some extent still are: Venice, Genoa, Milan,Ragusa, Devonshire, Buckinghamshire, Ireland, Alen9on, Valenciennes,Brussels, Mechlin, Binche,
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