Lace, its origin and history . used inpairs, placing small pins in all perforations, and crossing the bobbinsafter the insertion of each pin. Around these pins the design isformed, the threads being crossed and recrossed and passed under andover each other with remarkable rapidity and accuracy. When thewhole width of the large piece of lace is carried on together the num-ber of bobbins and pins is very great and the work highly expensive,but it is customary to work each sprig separately, these being joinedtogether in the form of a strip afterward by means of a curious loop-stitch, made by a ho
Lace, its origin and history . used inpairs, placing small pins in all perforations, and crossing the bobbinsafter the insertion of each pin. Around these pins the design isformed, the threads being crossed and recrossed and passed under andover each other with remarkable rapidity and accuracy. When thewhole width of the large piece of lace is carried on together the num-ber of bobbins and pins is very great and the work highly expensive,but it is customary to work each sprig separately, these being joinedtogether in the form of a strip afterward by means of a curious loop-stitch, made by a hook called a needle-pin. Scarcely had lace been invented before it had assumed almostpriceless value, and it is worth while remarking here that though cen-turies have since elapsed, the value of these delicate, hand-wroughtfabrics has not in any sense diminished. Throughout the sixteenth,seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries rare lace of beautifulpattern has been highly prized, some of the earliest specimens, in the. Real Irish Point.
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