The masterpieces of the Centennial international exhibition of 1876 .. . Lace Border: Collective Exhibit of Brussels. IND US TRIAL A R T. 495 accomplishing her task. But of late years machinery has been applied to thismanufacture with great success, and so perfectly have hand-made laces been. Lace Curtain : Jacoby, Nottingham. imitated that none but an expert can detect the difference. Indeed, in manylocalities hand-labor has been entirely discarded for that of machine. On 496 THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, i8j6. Cashmere Shawl: Exhibit of Saxony. INDUSTRIAL ART. 497 page 495 we engrave a charm
The masterpieces of the Centennial international exhibition of 1876 .. . Lace Border: Collective Exhibit of Brussels. IND US TRIAL A R T. 495 accomplishing her task. But of late years machinery has been applied to thismanufacture with great success, and so perfectly have hand-made laces been. Lace Curtain : Jacoby, Nottingham. imitated that none but an expert can detect the difference. Indeed, in manylocalities hand-labor has been entirely discarded for that of machine. On 496 THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, i8j6. Cashmere Shawl: Exhibit of Saxony. INDUSTRIAL ART. 497 page 495 we engrave a charming design of machine-made Nottingham Lace,intended for a curtain, from the well-known factory of Jacoby, in of the patterns in these favorite laces are of an elegance that leavesnothing to be desired, and not their least admirable peculiarity is their Cashmere Shawl, illustrated on page 496, differs only from a shawlmade in Cashmere, in that it is made in Saxony and by machinery. Thematerial is pershon, or shawl-wool; that is, the downy substance growing nextthe skin and under the thick hair of the goats inhabiting Thibet and the otherelevated regions to the north of the Himalaya Mountains; and the pattern issimilar to those wrought with such labor and p
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