Excerpt from A Treatise on Lace-Making, Embroidery, and Needle-Work With Irish Flax Thread T 0 one suggestion, not accepted, we wish to refer; it is that our Irish flax threads be made in Shaded colors for crocheting, as is done with cotton threads. We do not feel that this would be desir able. There is nothing atall artistic in these productions of shaded thread; indeed, to the cultivated eye they possess an abnormal ugliness. After laundering, such work is not even presentable, and the readiness with which cotton is known to soil renders its life re markably ephemeral. As a lady of taste remarked in our hearing not long ago, It Will not look nice, even while one is working on it, which is very true. 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.