. History of lace . Elizabethan Sampler. To face page 22. CUT- WORK 23 to be reproduced in Scxmelotlis,- 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 Adllages some years ago. Proud mothers causedthese cliefs-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
. History of lace . Elizabethan Sampler. To face page 22. CUT- WORK 23 to be reproduced in Scxmelotlis,- 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 Adllages some years ago. Proud mothers causedthese cliefs-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 Fm. IMPRESA OP Queen Margaret of Navarre in Lacis.—(Migneiak.) Christ, in all fifty-six figures, surrounded by Latin inscrip-tions. It is assumed to be of English workmanship. Some curious pieces of ancient lacis were also exhibited(circ. 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 w^ith 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 SchoolMistris Terms of Art for all her Waysof Sewing, hsis A Samcloth, vulgarly,a Samplar. ^^ In the Bock collection, part ofwhich has since been bought for theVictoria and Albert Museum, arespecimens of rezeuil dor, or networkwith patterns worked in with goldthread and coloured silks. Such were the richly-WTOught serviettes surfilez dor of Margaret of Austria.
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