No. 1 is a piece of bobbin-made lace, found in the Coptic tombs in 1903, and now in the Cluny Museum in Paris. Bobbins were found at the same time. I do not think this fabric was made on a lace pillow, but that a sort of frame with pegs was used to keep the bobbins separate
No. 2 is darned work with linen white thread, very similar to the Italian towel No. 1 in Plate XXVIII.; the background is afterwards darned in with coloured wool. This is also from a Coptic tomb of the third century
No. 3 is a portion of a mummy cloth of the Eighteenth Dynasty, 1700 B.C. The linen is very strong and of a wiry nature
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Plate VI. TWO EXAMPLES OF ITALIAN TELA TIRATA AND PUNTO REALE
Chosen as showing similarity to the work of the Assisi alb. Together 13 ft. 7 in. long
Italian. 16th century
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