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  • 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.

    Hairnets, part II a stitch in time 2009

  • 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.

    Archive 2009-02-01 a stitch in time 2009

  • A large portière curtain of Italian lacis-work 10 10 0

    Chats on Old Lace and Needlework Emily Leigh Lowes

  • Darned netting, or _lacis_, as it is sometimes called, might almost come under the heading of either lace or embroidery.

    Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving Grace Christie

  • Bed-hangings, curtains, and furniture-coverings were covered with alternate squares of lacis and cutwork.

    Chats on Old Lace and Needlework Emily Leigh Lowes

  • 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.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

  • London, in 1295, mentions lacis under the name of album filum nodatum

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

  • 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.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

  • Java; elaborate yellow Chinese hangings; books bound in tawny satins or fair blue silks and wrought with fleurs de lys, birds, and images; veils of lacis worked in Hungary point; Sicilian brocades, and stiff

    The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde 1877

  • 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.

    Lucii Caecilii Firmiani Lactantii De mortibus persecutorum, cum notis Stephani Baluzii ... Lactantius, Paul Bauldri, Etienne Baluze , Nicolas Thoynard , Johan Columbus , Thomas Spark , Joannes Georgius Graevius, Gisbertus Cuperus, Elias Boherellus, Thomas Gale 1692

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  • In Latvian, lācis means bear.

    May 4, 2011