A descriptive catalogue of the collection of lace in the South Kensington Museum
A museum catalogue of lace compiled by Mrs. Bury Palliser and Alan Summerly Cole for the South Kensington Museum, printed in London in 1881 for official government publication and aimed at collectors, students and museum visitors. The plates show black-and-white photographic reproductions of lace collars, edgings and flounces against dark grounds, with dense, intricate floral and geometric patterns that a designer could use as reference for textile borders, lace-effect ornament and fine linework.
