Old lace : a handbook for collectors : an account of the different styles of lace, their history, characteristics & manufacture
Margaret Jourdain's 1908 handbook for collectors, published in London by B.T. Batsford and New York by Charles Scribner's Sons, surveys the styles, history and manufacture of old lace. The four plates shown are black-and-white photographs of lace panels and a lace-edged cloth set against dark backgrounds. A designer could take from them the dense scrolling vine and floral borders, and the repeating architectural motifs of the later panel, as source material for patterns.
