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Identifier: embroiderylaceth00lefb (find matches)
Title: Embroidery and lace: their manufacture and history from the remotest antiquity to the present day. A handbook for amateurs, collectors and general readers
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Lefébure, Ernest, b. 1835 Cole, Alan S. (Alan Summerly), 1846-1934
Subjects: Lace and lace making Embroidery
Publisher: London, H. Grevel
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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T Sir George Bird wood, vol. ii.,p. 118. II 162 I. EMBROIDERY. European embroidery produced at that time. France,Switzerland, Saxony, and the United \Kingdom have
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pig, 75.—Embroidered Japanese foukouse or cover (in theMontefiore collection). employed native talent in the art, but with alternationsof success and discouragement.* All sorts of needlework * Felix Aubry Report on the London Exhibition of 1851. FROM LOUIS XV. TO THE PRESENT TIME. 163 have been successively attempted, especially such as areeasy of execution. Fashion has capriciously inclined toone or other of them, evoking, during the periods of itsheat, enormous quantities of hurried work, often designedwith spirit, but almost always deficient in that qualityof persevering care and conviction, the impress of whichis always seen in a work of real art. Quick work andcheap labour especially, heedlessness of the particularuse to which an embroidery is to be put, attempt tomake it do equally well for a church, for a bit of furni-ture, or a dress, are elements which invariably militateagainst style in workmanship. The machine invented by the Alsatian Hellmann hasin latter years supplied

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