A descriptive catalogue of the lace and embroidery in the South Kensington Museum
A descriptive catalogue of lace and embroidery held by the South Kensington Museum, issued by that museum in 1871 for collectors, students and designers of textiles. Its plates are photographic reproductions of individual lace specimens, dated and labelled by country, such as Venetian point, Flemish bobbin lace and French point d'argentan. A designer can take from them the scrolling floral vine structures, the open ground patterns and the varied densities of needle and bobbin lace, while the final plate shows a close view of a simple knotted or looped stitch.
