Argentan, late 18th century
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Plate LXX. THREE SPECIMENS OF NEEDLE-POINT LACE
No. 1 is of silk lace à réseau and has a quaint stiff pattern of branches with birds introduced; a stout thread cordonnet outlines most of the pattern, that of the eye, wing and tail of each bird is overworked with buttonhole stitch.
Probably Portuguese, 18th century
No. 2 is from a floral design treated with occasional buttonhole cordonnet as in No. 2.
No. 3. Border of needle-point, called "point de gaze" on account of the extreme delicacy of the bobbin-made réseau (vrai réseau de Bruxelles): the pattern is a flowery border with small sprays recurring in the ground in the style of the Louis XVI. period.
Together 3 ft. 3 in.
Brussels, 18th century
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Plate LXXI. LAPPET OF NEEDLE-POINT LACE