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Title: Seven centuries of lace
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Pollen, Maria Margaret, d. 1919
Subjects: Lace and lace making -- History
Publisher: London : W. Heinemann New York : The Macmillan company
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Plate V. (i) A PIECE OFBOBBIN-MADE LACE. (2) DARNED WORK WITHWHITE LINEN THREAD.- (3) PORTION OF A MUMMY CLOTH No I is a piece of bobbin-made lace, found in the Coptic tombs in 1903, and now in the Cluny Museum in Paris, Bobbins were found at the sametime, I do not think this fabric was made on a lace pillow, but that a sort of frame with pegs was used to keep the bobbins separate No. 2 is darned work with linen white thread, very similar to the Italian towel No. i in Plate XXVIII.; the background is afterwards darned iu withcoloured wool. This is also from a Coptic tomb of the third century No. 3 is a portion of a mummy cloth of the Eighteenth Dynasty, 1700 b.c. The linen is very strong and of a wiry nature, and resembles the liucn ofthe albs Plates I. and II. There is a knotted fringe
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Plate VI. TWO EXAMPLES OF ITALIAN TELA TIKATA AND PUNTO REALE Chosen as showing similarity to the work of the Assisi alb. Together. 13 ft. 7 in, long Italian, i6lh century

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