New designs in lace curtains 1893 / from Copestake, Lindsay, Crampton & Co.
A trade catalogue of lace curtain designs issued in 1893 by Copestake, Lindsay, Crampton & Co., a firm selling drapery, for retailers and buyers choosing stock. Each plate shows one full curtain panel, numbered at the foot, with a border and central field rendered as a black-and-white engraved or printed design. A designer could take the scrolling floral borders, leafy vine repeats and the sprig-scattered centre fields as models for pattern work.
