A large portière curtain of Italian lacis-work 10 10 0. From Wordnik.com. [Chats on Old Lace and Needlework] Reference
Bed-hangings, curtains, and furniture-coverings were covered with alternate squares of lacis and cutwork. From Wordnik.com. [Chats on Old Lace and Needlework] Reference
A pattern book for lacis by Therèse de Dillmont is available on the net German version of "Filet Guipure": Part 1 and Part 2, and she offers thread weight advice for mesh sizes between 7 and 11 mm. From Wordnik.com. [Hairnets, part II] Reference
London, in 1295, mentions lacis under the name of album filum nodatum. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent] Reference
Quare nunc quidcm longc pnefticerit, meojodicio, per captivitatem, capcivi - lacis bgnum vel nocam incelligere. From Wordnik.com. [Lucii Caecilii Firmiani Lactantii De mortibus persecutorum, cum notis Stephani Baluzii ...] Reference
Among the Egyptian antiquities discovered in 1909 by Professor F. Petrie, at Qurneh, it is interesting to recognize the square knotted mesh netting, similar to the lacis called modano. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent] Reference
Sive denique, quod ecfi Pacres folis variorum miraculorum oarrationibus fi - dem habere debuerinc, fiepius umen quam par fuic, eciam fabulofis accom - snodaverinc, uci eadem exempla plus lacis oftendunt. From Wordnik.com. [Lucii Caecilii Firmiani Lactantii De mortibus persecutorum, cum notis Stephani Baluzii ...] Reference
Dr. Daniel Rock has pointed out that the long strips of lacis and linen lace of early work, now sometimes found, were covers for the lectern; and this is confirmed by the fact that the figure subjects are usually worked across the width of the piece, as in a remarkable piece dating from the fifteenth century. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent] Reference
CTORlANAVALIS.vid. fuis lacis. From Wordnik.com. [Lexicon vniversae rei nvmariae vetervm et praecipve Graecorvm ac Romanorvm: cvm observationibvs ...] Reference
(Lat. laqueus; It. laccio, trine, merletto; Sp. lazo, encaje, pasamano; Fr. lacis, dentelle; Ger. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent] Reference
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