APPENDIX
With Drawings by the Directrice of the Brussels School of Design, Mme. Lucie Paulis
From the point of view of technique, all laces are divided into two groups; laces made with the needle, and laces made with bobbins.
I.—Laces Made with the Needle
All needle lace is executed in the same manner. First, the design of the whole is divided into details sufficiently small to allow of their being easily held and turned by the worker. The design of each of these details is reproduced on a special kind of black paper by means of tiny pricked holes that follow all its lines.
The lace worker sews this pattern (or piqure) to a piece of double white cloth, which gives it solidity. She is then ready to begin the tracé or outlining process. A strand of two or three threads is appliquéd along all the contours of the pattern by means of a very fine needle and very fine thread, which catches the cloth below the black paper, passing and repassing through each of the holes of the pattern, thus holding the outlining strand in a sort of embrace. When all the contours of the drawing have been traced, the second part of the work begins, the execution of the points that are to fill in the spaces.
