. 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 IMPRESA OF QCEEN MARGARET OF NAVARRE IN LACIS.—(Mignerak.) Christ, in all fifty-six figures, surrounded by Latin inscrip-tions. It is assumed to be of English w^orkmanship. Some curious pieces of ancient lacis were also exhibited{clrc. 1866) at the Museum of South Kensington by Dr. Bock,of Bonn. Among others, two specimens of coloured silknetwork, the one ornamented with small embroidered shieldsand crosses (Fig. 6), the other wdth the mediaeval gammadionpattern (Fig. 7). In the same collection was a towel oraltar-cloth of ancient German work—a coarse net ground,worked over with the lozenge pattern.^^ ^® Randle Holme, in The School the richly-wrought serviettes sur Mistris Terms of Art for all her Wmjs filez dor of Margaret of Austria. 0/S^ei^m^,has A Samcloth,vulgarly, Autre servyette de Cabes (Cadiz) a Samplar. ouvree dor, dargent sur fillez et ^ In the Bock collection, part of bordee dor et de gris. which has since been bought for the Autre serviette a Cabes de soye Victoria a
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