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TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • Armenian Needlepoint Lace:
    A Brief Statement About the Home of This Lace and the Purpose of This Book
  • Armenian Needlepoint Knot Stitch
  • Lesson in Simple Edgings
  • Edgings for the Newer Luncheon Sets
  • Lace Edgings on Round or Pointed Scallops
  • Wide Edgings Simple in Design
  • Wide Edgings for Table Scarfs
  • Well-Designed Edging for a Table Runner
  • Square Lace Inset for After-Dinner Cloth
  • Day Pillow With Lace Corners
  • Round Laces and How to Start Them
  • Armenian Lace Flower Pendants
  • Newer Types of Luncheon Linens
  • Doily with Basket Edge Medallions
  • Doily With Border of Star Medallions
  • Spider Web Doily
  • Triple Ring Doily
  • Doily With Point Edging
  • Small All-Lace Doilies
  • Snowflake Medallion
  • Square Centrepiece With Round Medallions
  • Beautiful Examples of Fine Lace Doilies
  • Tumbler Doily with Picot Points
  • Designs of Exquisite Beauty
  • Doily of Marked Distinction
  • Lace Made on the Width
  • Bedspread With Tufted Lace Centrepiece and Edging

Title: Priscilla Armenian Needlepoint Lace Book
Author/Designer: Nouvart Tashjian
Format/Publication Date: TPB:1923
Publisher: The Priscilla Publishing Co., Boston, Mass
Page Count: 36
Book Dimensions(ht. x w.): 10 1/2" x 7 3/4"
ISBN: None

SUMMARY- A nice worktext with lots of illustration for making Armenian lace. Maybe not a definitive guide, but useful still. I believe all the Priscilla books are competently done and worth pursuing for more than just their historical context. They impart practical information in a way that is still usable a hundred years later - not a small feat.

Again, there was a full-page ad for "The Modern Priscilla" on the back cover. I've been slowly working on a collection of TMP, but they tend to be a little pricey. Reproduction copies of the Priscilla tatting booklets can be had fairly reasonably on e-bay.