Netting Lesson

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No kind of lace combines the qualities of elegance, durability and general usefulness so much as filet lace. It is most decorative, whether on household linen , such as tea-cloths, bedspreads, traycloths, and a quantity of other things, or as trimmings on muslin or Shantung silk dresses.

Cushion-covers and curtains are made both attractive and valuable when composed of netting inlets in conjunction with Broderie Anglaise, Italian or French embroidery, and various kinds of pillow lace. Filet lace lasts a life-time and more if carefully washed. And, lastly, it is a most fascinating handicraft.

We have become accustomed to consider the art of making filet lace as having originated in the Italian convents, But though the nuns made netting into a high art of lace-making, and as such handed it down to us, they themselves most probably got the idea from the Orient, where embroidery on netted silk-foundation with gold and silver thread, and all the rich colours of the Orient, was one of the common forms of applied art in the early centuries.

Where the idea first sprang froin to make the common fishing-net mesh out of linen and silk, and to employ it for ornamental purposes, is not known. Still less do we know how, when or where the fishing nets themselves were invented.

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