Intended probably for an altar-cloth with a design of ornamental hexagonal compartments worked in linen stitch, in each of which are various devices, I.H.S. in a heart-shape above two heraldic lions, elsewhere a stag, pairs of birds, symmetrical devices of leaf and blossom, etc.
6 ft. × 10 in.
French, 15th century
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Plate XIII. TWO EXAMPLES OF LACIS WORK
No. 1. Lacis with gammadion, or early Christian symbol. 4 ft.
No. 2. Lacis cover, containing 39 squares of different patterns darned with punto a tela or linen stitch. The border is of bobbin-made lace. 2 ft. 1 in. × 21 in.
Italian, 15th century