Embroidery and lace
Subtitle: their manufacture and history from the remotest antiquity to the present day. A handbook for amateurs, collectors, and general readers.
Publisher: London : [publisher not identified}
Published: 1889
Language: eng
Table of contents: title: TABLE OF CONTENTS.; title: PREFACE v-viii; title: EMBROIDERY.; title: I. Definitions i; title: II. The Embroidery of Antiquity 17; title: III. From the Christian Era to the Crusades 38; title: IV. From the Crusades to the Sixteenth Century 71; title: V. From the Sixteenth Century to the Death of Louis XIV 108; title: VI. From Louis XV. to the Present Time 148; title: LACE.; title: NEEDLEPOINT LACE.; title: I. The Sixteenth Century — Transition from Embroidery to Needlepoint Lace-making 171; title: II. The Seventeenth Century — Venetian Points — Colbert's Influence — Point de France 198; title: III. From Louis XV. to the Present Time 226; title: I. From their Origin to the End of Louis XIV.'s Reign 256; title: II. From Louis XV. to the Present Time 283; title: CONCLUSION 322; title: LIST OF LACES 325