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lace
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lace

before 1947

The remains of part of a garment where the ecru coloured Naxos lace has been applied onto crimson coloured silk velvet and lined with cream silk gauze. The lace has been folded and tacked to the gauze...

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lace fragments
Textile

lace fragments

before 1947

Four samples of Naxos lace. Fine and closely worked silk embroidery on a linen ground in button hole and overcast stitches. Very little of the linen ground is visible and in some areas it had been cut...

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lace
Textile

lace

before 1947

This piece is labelled 'A very fine piece of 'Naxos' lace. It is worked in silk and with buttonhole and other lace stitches. Naxos (Greek island) lace is often done in green silk or in a pure lightis...

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