Seven centuries of lace . Plate LV. TWO EXAMPLES OF NEEDLE-POINT LACE No. I is of silk needle-poiat lace with cordonnet, buttonholed in different sizes. This is a small portion, actual size, of the lace useU toembellish the Jewish talith or silk mantle or scarf worn at prayers. Vaictian, 17th cctUitry No. 2. Border of needle-point lace sometimBs called mezzo-punto, as fine bobbin-made tape or braid is used to outline the pattern, two orthree varieties of needle fillings are wrought within the tape forms. 19 in. lyth century. Plate LVI. CAP OF NEEDLE-POINT LACE A RESEAU The design coniist? of a
Seven centuries of lace . Plate LV. TWO EXAMPLES OF NEEDLE-POINT LACE No. I is of silk needle-poiat lace with cordonnet, buttonholed in different sizes. This is a small portion, actual size, of the lace useU toembellish the Jewish talith or silk mantle or scarf worn at prayers. Vaictian, 17th cctUitry No. 2. Border of needle-point lace sometimBs called mezzo-punto, as fine bobbin-made tape or braid is used to outline the pattern, two orthree varieties of needle fillings are wrought within the tape forms. 19 in. lyth century. Plate LVI. CAP OF NEEDLE-POINT LACE A RESEAU The design coniist? of a waved opcQ ornamental riband device crossing a spray of conventional flowers. This lace may be distinguished from Alen^on by the use of a single thread instead of a buttonholed stitch in the cordonuet as well as by the make and lay of the meshed ground, point de Venise k reseau. The style of the design is borrowed from the French of the latter part of the seventeenth century, 2 ft. 8 in. x 6 in. Venctiati, late 17th century
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