Church Lace PDF Download

Author: M. E. W. Milroy
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781330075708
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 130

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Book Description
Excerpt from Church Lace: Being Eight Ecclesiastical Patterns in Pillow-Lace "And all the women that were wise-hearted, did spin with their hands, and brought that which they had spun, both of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet and of fine linen." This is the earliest record of Church needlework, and it puts before us a model that even after the thousands of years that have since passed by, we shall do well to copy. Most people agree that everything that is intrinsically good and beautiful should be used to make and furnish our Churches, and we use rich colour and fine linen even as did the Israelites. But they used more than that. We read that the spinning was done by "the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom" - "the children of Israel brought a willing offering unto the Lord" - they were "filled with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of work". Head and heart and hands they used, and so must we if our workmanship is to reach the highest standard which alone is fit for use in God's House. "All manner of work" they utilized, and there is no craft of modern days which cannot be brought within the scope of Church work. It is to increase the possibilities for Church purposes of one particular craft that this little book is written. There follow here a few patterns of pillow-lace designed for use on "fair linen". About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.