Dentelle

1820 · 319565 — Great Britain 1820. Pen-and-ink and wash drawings on recto only of 133 sheets a few with holograph annotations e.g. "three full flourices" or "Patterns for the border of a dress or Pelisse to be worked in chenille or sarcenet". Paper watermarked S.E. & Co. 4to. Period half morocco and pastepaper boards with onlaid dark green morocco label "Miss Brown" on upper cover with a small binder/bookseller's label on the front pastedown "Bound by B. Bean . Whitby." Binding worn joints starting. Pen-and-ink and wash drawings on recto only of 133 sheets a few with holograph annotations e.g. "three full flourices" or "Patterns for the border of a dress or Pelisse to be worked in chenille or sarcenet". Paper watermarked S.E. & Co. 4to. The present designs likely are for bobbin lace making. From such a pattern book a design would be tranferred to parchment or card pin holes were pricked through and ink pattern markings were added. The finished pricking was attached to a pillow using strong pins for the threading work. <br/><br/>Lace schools were common in the late 18th and early 19th century to teach such skills working children for long hours in harsh conditions before being phased out by the machine made lace of the Industrial Revolution. It would seem likely that "Miss Brown" attended such a school in North Yorkshire. unknown books