Old and new lace in Italy : exhibited at Chicago in 1893
A lace history catalogue published in Venice around 1893 by F. Ongania, compiled by Countess di Brazzà for the Chicago exhibition, covering old and new Italian lace. The pictures are a mix of costumed figure plates, pen-and-ink genre scenes dated by period, and a black-and-white lace border pattern printed on the page, which together show how lace was worn and designed. A designer might take the dense, repeating floral and bird borders as ready motifs for surface pattern and trim.
