Chats on old lace and needlework
Chats on Old Lace and Needlework is a 1908 London book by Emily Leigh Lowes, published by T. F. Unwin, written as a general guide for collectors and amateur enthusiasts of antique lace and embroidery. Its plates are black-and-white photographs of individual lace pieces and textile fragments, shown flat against dark backgrounds, with the lace edgings, net grounds and openwork motifs clearly legible. A designer could draw on the scrolling floral sprays, scalloped borders and dense geometric grounds as sources for pattern repeats and surface texture.
