Seven Centuries of Lace

by Maria Margaret Pollen

[A] Eyn neu Kunstlichbuch, &c. Metre piere quinty Cologne, 1527.

[B] Darning stitch exists in the British Museum on a piece of material woven from flax, and found in an Egyptian tomb. And chain stitch is seen on a fragment of Greek work of the fourth century, B.C., at the Hermitage, St. Petersburg.

[C] "Ne makie none purses ... ne laz bute leave, auh schepied, and seouwed, and amended cherche clodes, and poure monne clodes."

"Do not make no purses ... nor lace, without leave, but shape and sew, and mend, church-vestments and poor people's clothes."

"The Ancren Riwle" (The Nun's Rule), p. 420, h. A.D. 1210.

Morton's edition, Old English, 1853.

[D] Dugdale, "St. Paul's," p. 316.

[E] "Norfolk Archæology," vol. v. (Norwich 1859), p. 91.

[F] Vol. viii., Plate 245, of Bastard's "Peintures et Ornements des MSS." Paris, 1832-69.

[G] Gayet, A., "L'art Copte." Paris, 1902.