"Torchon lace" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the thread the lace is to be made of; for a coarse lace large point paper should be used and small, for the finer kinds of lace. The pricking of the pattern beforehand is particularly important in the case of the common torchon lace, where the real beauty of the design consists in its regularity; in the case of fine close patterns the pricking can only ...
— Encyclopedia of Needlework • Therese de Dillmont |
