. Handbook of ornament; a grammar of art, industrial and architectural designing in all its branches, for practical as well as theoretical use. ruhe. 2. Indian - Mexican pouch, United collections, Carlsruhe. 3. Egyptian, (Ebers). 4. Renascence, (Storck). 5. Mediaeval maniple, (Teirich). 6. Turkish saddle-cloth, 1690, United collections, Carlsruhe. 7. Renascence, silver. 8—9. Modern designs, by Prignot. The Lace Border. (Plate 120.) Of all products of the textile art. Lace is the most is something poetical about it, like flowers. The combinationof the conventional treatment wi
. Handbook of ornament; a grammar of art, industrial and architectural designing in all its branches, for practical as well as theoretical use. ruhe. 2. Indian - Mexican pouch, United collections, Carlsruhe. 3. Egyptian, (Ebers). 4. Renascence, (Storck). 5. Mediaeval maniple, (Teirich). 6. Turkish saddle-cloth, 1690, United collections, Carlsruhe. 7. Renascence, silver. 8—9. Modern designs, by Prignot. The Lace Border. (Plate 120.) Of all products of the textile art. Lace is the most is something poetical about it, like flowers. The combinationof the conventional treatment with those accidental features whichhand-work confers upon the delicate, light material, gives them apeculiar charm. Who invented lace manufacture, and in what year,cannot now be detei-mined. Lace is one of those things which theRenascence has handed down to us without having inherited it fromthe Antique. The stimulus, to the invention of lace and the basis ofits manufacture, is probably to be found in the textile hand-work ofthe Middle Ages, such as was practised, particularly in convents, forecclesiastical purposes. FREE ORNAMENTS. 191. The Fringe, and the Valence. Plate 119. 192 FREE ORNAMENTS.
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