Lace-making in the Midlands, past and present
- Author(s): C C Channer and M E Roberts
- Category: Textiles, Clothing & Accessories
- Publisher: Methuen & Co.
- Publish year: 1900
- ISBN: 9678000006929
- Number of Pages: 172
The history of lace-making is the history of an art. A piece of lace is an artistic composition expressed in twisted thread, just as a piece of wood-carving is the expression of the artist's idea in chiselled wood. Lace is not, like embroidery, an ornamented fabric ; it is itself ornament. It is not the application of art to a craft ; the whole pattern is the fabric, and the fabric is the pattern. It is this peculiarity that distinguishes lace from needlework and from woven-work.
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CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
I - SKETCH OF THE PROGRESS OFLACE-MAKING IN EUROPE
II - THE PROGRESS OF LACE-MAKING IN ENGLAND,WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO· THE MIDLAND COUNTIES
III - LACE-MAKING IN THE MIDLANDS DURING THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURIES
IV LACE SCHOOLS
v - LACE-MAKERS AT HOME
VI - THE DECLINE OF THE LACE INDUSTRY
VII - REVIVAL OF THE LACE INDUSTRY
VIII - THE CONDITION AND PROSPECTS OF LACE MAKING AT THE PRESENT TIME