Ancient needlepoint and pillow lace : with notes on the history of lace-making and descriptions of thirty examples
A late nineteenth-century London book on lace history, written by Alan S. Cole and published in 1875 by the Arundel Society for the study of art, aimed at collectors and students of decorative needlework. The four pictures are ornamental border and corner strips with scrolling foliage and interlaced stems, printed in fine black line on cream paper, offering a designer clear models for repeating bands, frames and corner pieces.




