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Plate LIII. BORDER OF NEEDLE-POINT RAISED LACE, CALLED SPANISH ROSE-POINT

The fond or toilé of this lace is partly made of bobbin-made tape; on this is raised work, and gimps as well as buttonhole-stitched cordonnets of different dimensions outline and accentuate the rounded serrations and inner portions of the conventional foliage forms, into which are introduced many varieties of modes.

4 ft. 6½ in.

Spanish, 17th century

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Plate LIV. TWO SPECIMENS OF NEEDLE-POINT RAISED LACE, CALLED SPANISH ROSE-POINT

(SLIGHTLY REDUCED IN SIZE)