. A history of hand-made lace : dealing with the origin of lace, the growth of the great lace centres, the mode of manufacture, the methods of distinguishing and the care of various kinds of lace . ed forthe use of the lace-makers. St. Dunstandesigned patterns to be executed by the nuns,and sometimes, it would appear, by the monksalso ; the monks of the monastry of Wolstrope,in Lincolnshire, are commended for their skillin needlework, and in the frontispiece of someof the early pattern books of the sixteenthcentury men are . represented working atframes, and we are told these books werewritten
. A history of hand-made lace : dealing with the origin of lace, the growth of the great lace centres, the mode of manufacture, the methods of distinguishing and the care of various kinds of lace . ed forthe use of the lace-makers. St. Dunstandesigned patterns to be executed by the nuns,and sometimes, it would appear, by the monksalso ; the monks of the monastry of Wolstrope,in Lincolnshire, are commended for their skillin needlework, and in the frontispiece of someof the early pattern books of the sixteenthcentury men are . represented working atframes, and we are told these books werewritten for the profit of men, as well as books inherited from monasteries contain no letterpress except whatis required to explain the working of the patterns ; the monks would hardly have collected thevolumes e x -cept for thepurpose ofusing them. The earliestdated pattern-book was pub-lished in Co-logne, in 1527,and is a smalloctavo volumewith forty-twoplates; thetitle is inGothic lettersbeneath wood-Design for Eeticella, from a Pattern Book by Vinciola. Sixteenth century. cuts represent-ing women atwork. On the back of the leaf is a large escutcheon, the three crowns of Cologne. THE LITERATURE OF LACE. 95 in chief; supporters, a lion and a griffin ; below, O. Fcclix Colonia, 1527. Thepatterns consist of mediaeval and Arabesque borders and alphabets, some on white,others on black grounds, some with counted stitches. Occasionally there is a dedication in verse, as in an undated book published at
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