Identification of Lace

Paperback
from $0.00

Author: Pat Earnshaw

ISBN-10: 0747802378

ISBN-13: 9780747802372

Category: Collectible Textiles & Costumes

This book guides the reader through the intricacies of identifying a piece of lace, listing and illustrating the points to look through in each lace. It covers the whole range of lace from all parts of the world, selecting for examination those major types which the collector or dealer is most likely to come across or hear about. The numerous photographs are arranged to assist comparison of diagnostic features and to put together laces which might be confused with each other so that their...

Search in google:

This book guides the reader through the intricacies of identifying a piece of lace, listing and illustrating the points to look through in each lace. It covers the whole range of lace from all parts of the world, selecting for examination those major types which the collector or dealer is most likely to come across or hear about. The numerous photographs are arranged to assist comparison of diagnostic features and to put together laces which might be confused with each other so that their differences, sometimes subtle, can be appreciated.

A chroncile of laceIdentifying lace1 Embroidered laces2 Needlepoint laces3 Bobbin laces4 Machine and craft lacesComparison of lace machine and bobbin lace productsGlossaryBibliographyIndex