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Title: Lace, its origin and history
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Goldenberg, Samuel L
Subjects: Lace and lace making
Publisher: New York : Brentano's
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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-made lace, they are the triumphs of mechan-ism which cannot displace the superiority, and charm, and rarity, of thefinest hand-made work. In the latter the personal equation, the skilland the loving, workmanlike fidelity of the individual toiler to his taskimpart a quality which dead mechanism can neither create nor super-sede. Machine-made lace may be predominantly the lace of commerce,but hand-made lace is the natural expression and embodiment of a deli-cate and difficult art, and thus it will ever remain. Insertion.-—A .kind of lace, embroidery or other trimming used toinsert in a plain fabric for ornamental purposes. It is made with theedges on both sides alike, and often a plain portion of the material out-side the work, so that it may be sewn on one side to the garment forwhich it is intended and to the plain part of the lace or border on theother. Irish.—A term denoting a variety of laces made in Ireland, ofwhich the two most individual and best-known kinds are the net em-
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is Lace: Its Origin and History. broideries of Limerick and the applique and (.-tit cambric work of Car-rick-ma-cross. ()ther varieties, which are imitations of foreign laces,are Irish point, resembling Brussels lace; black and white Maltese;silver, black and white blondes. The Limerick embroideries, for theycannot be strictly called lace, are an imitation of Indian tambour work,and consist of tine embroidery in chain-stitches upon a Nottinghamnet. Carrick-ma-cross, or Irish guipure, is a kind of so-called Irishpoint lace, made at the town of that name, but which is really nothingmore than a species of embroidery, from which part of the cloth is cutaway, leaving a guipure ground. It is not a very durable lace. Themost popular patterns are the rose and the shamrock. Irish crochet is animitation of the needle-point laces of Spain and Venice; that is to say,it resembles these laces in general effect. There is also a needle-pointlace made of rather coarse thread, and used exclusively in I

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