still in the frame. Made by Mrs. Edward Rowland (Sarah Belknap), of
Waterbury, Connecticut, born June 27, 1837, for a lace exhibition at
the Hartford Athenæum in February, 1907. Mrs. Rowland learned to make
lace in Florence, Italy. Owned by Miss Edith Beach, of West Hartford,
Connecticut.]
[Illustration: _Plate 102._
The same kind of lace as that shown in Plate 101, sewed on satin and
trimmed with pillow and bobbin lace. Made by Elsie Belknap, born in
Hartford, Connecticut, November 4, 1863; married Mr. R. E. K. Whiting;
died September 23, 1907. She was taught to make lace by Miss Edith
Beach. Owned by Miss Edith Beach, of West Hartford, Connecticut.]
[Illustration: _Plate 103._
Chalice-veil. Designed and embroidered from a number of pieces of
sixteenth-century Italian cut-work—reticella and punto reale—by Miss
Margaret Taylor Johnstone, of New York and Paris. Exhibited at the
Société Nationale des Beaux Arts, and also at the Musée des Arts
Décoratifs, in the early years of this century. It is signed M. T. J.
in the border. Original photograph reduced one-third.
Some thirty years ago Miss Johnstone gathered together a little class
of workers at the Society of Decorative Art in New York City and taught
them these stitches. The work prospered, with the aid of designs found
in various public and private collections, and continued for over
a quarter of a century, when this association, which had been the
mother-society of beautiful embroidery in New York, ceased to exist.
Miss Johnstone also prepared the rearrangement of the Lace Collection
in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, in 1906–1907, on
lines suggested by her to the expert, Frau Kubasek, of Vienna, who
was brought to New York by the Museum for this purpose. She brought
with her a trunk of four hundred specimens of embroidery and lace
collected by Miss Johnstone from friends in Paris and New York, and
labelled and classified according to her own extended classification.
These specimens were accepted for the Museum by the Director, Sir
Caspar Purdon Clarke, whose love of decorative art was a benefit to
the Museum. Since that time the collection of laces has so increased
that it is probably surpassed only by that in the Victoria and Albert
Museum, of London.]
[Illustration: _Plate 104._
_Figure 1._ Blue paper pattern for lace to be made on a pillow with
thread on bobbins. Part of the design was worked and is shown in the
small piece of lace beside the pattern. Made and owned by Miss Edith
Beach, of West Hartford, Connecticut.
_Figure 2._ Lace made on a pillow with thread on bobbins. Although
similar in appearance to tape lace, it is quite different, being
entirely worked with linen thread on bobbins, on a pillow. Made and
owned by Miss Edith Beach.]
[Illustration: _Plate 105._
Lace, unfinished, being made for a fan, on a pillow with thread on
bobbins. The design is adapted for this purpose from one in _The Art of
Bobbin Lace_, by Louisa A. Tebbs, Chapman and Hall, Ltd., London, 1908.
Made and owned by Miss Edith Beach, of West Hartford, Connecticut.]
[Illustration: _Plate 106._
Blue paper pattern for making Venetian point lace (needle-point), and
the lace in process of making. It consists mainly of very fine, close
buttonholing with a sewing needle. Owned by Miss Edith Beach, of West
Hartford, Connecticut. These laces have been made since 1904 by Miss
Beach. She was taught lace-making by her aunt, Sarah Belknap (Mrs.
Edward Rowland); see Plate 101.]
[Illustration: _Plate 107._
_Figure 1_ (at top). Machine-made net in the piece.
_Figure 2._ The same kind of net with stitches dropped at regular
intervals to serve as guides for cutting it into footing, or strips for
embroidering or darning as trimming lace.
Between _Figures 1_ and _2_ are shown samples of beading, or purling,
to be sewn on the edge of the trimming lace.
(_Plates 107–109 show net made by machine at the “lace shop”
established and operated by Dean Walker in Medway, Massachusetts,
between 1818 and 1827. See Introduction, pp. 4–5; also Plate 110 and
caption. The originals shown are in the possession of Dean Walker’s
granddaughter, Miss Sophia A. Walker, of New York City._)]
[Illustration: _Plate 108._
_Figure 1_ (at top). Trimming lace on machine-made net. Darned by
Clarissa Richardson, about 1830, on net made by Dean Walker at the
“lace shop.” (See caption of Plate 107.) It consists of two pieces of
straight-edge fagotted together.
_Figure 2._ Trimming lace on machine-made net. Darned by Julia Adams
(Mrs. Horatio Mason) on net made at Dean Walker’s “lace shop.” Purling
is added to the waved edge.]
[Illustration: _Plate 109._
Cap embroidered on machine-made net. Made about 1820 by Julia Adams
(Mrs. Horatio Mason), the maternal grandmother of the present owner,
Miss Sophia A. Walker, of New York City. (See caption of Plate 108,
_Figure 2_.) The net was made by Dean Walker at the “lace shop” in
Medway. The frill of the cap has been removed for another use.]
[Illustration: _Plate 110._
Silver medal awarded to Dean Walker in 1825 by the Franklin Institute
of the State of Pennsylvania, for the net made at his “lace shop” in
Medway, Massachusetts. (See Introduction, pp. 4–5; also Plates 107–109
and captions.) Owned by William T. Walker, a great-grandson of Dean
Walker.]
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