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needlepoint of Louis XV; Mrs. Thomas F. Richardson, Italian cut 

 work and lace, unusual netted and darned lace, guipure de Genes, 

 Belgian pillow lace, and Bretonne; Mrs. James Lowndes, reticella 

 cult's and collar, point de France, point de Milan of the seventeenth 

 century, point de Lille, Buckinghamshire and Brussels; Mrs. Archi- 

 bald Hopkins, old Italian embroidery and lace, Spanish blonde, priest 

 lace, Honiton, and old Valenciennes; Mrs. Alfred E. Bates, English 

 hand-run lace, Mechlin, Honiton, Chantilly, and fine examples of 

 Brussels lace; Mrs. E. H. G. Slater, a collar and sleeves of very fine 

 point d'Alengon ; Mrs. Arnold Hague, a Flemish collar of the eight- 

 eenth century ; the Misses Long, two strips of macrame ; Mrs. Eliza- 

 beth C. Hobson, a piece of Mechlin lace of the nineteenth century; 

 and Mrs. Julian James, a black Spanish lace mantilla and a Porto 

 Rican filet handkerchief. A pair of baby's cuffs of fine Binche was 

 presented by Mrs. Livingston Hunt. 



For the loan of fabrics other than laces acknowledgments are due to 

 Mrs. H. K. Porter for 22 embroidered bags, nine squares of brocades, 

 a piece of Gothic velvet, a large piece of old Spanish green brocade, 

 a green-and-gold brocade stole, and two fragments of old Genoese 

 velvet; to Mrs. Thomas F. Richardson for an antique Perugian 

 towel, an Italian chasuble, Spanish gold embroidery, four pieces of 

 Algerian embroidery, Spanish brocade, yellow brocade of Louis XIV, 

 and six squares of brocade of Louis XIV and Louis XV; to Mr. 

 Walter R. Tuckerman for seven examples of elegant brocades and 

 velvets of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and five em- 

 broidered pictures ; to Mrs. James W. Pinchot for a cover of a chest 

 of English stumpwork embroidery of the time of Charles II, repre- 

 senting the presentation of the head of John the Baptist to Herod 

 and his Queen, an embroidered panel from a vestment, and two pic- 

 tures of St. George and the Dragon in tinsel and color; to Mrs. Al- 

 fred E. Bates for an Italian cope of dark rose brocade of the seven- 

 teenth century, two Italian brocade chasubles of the eighteenth cen- 

 tury, and three examples of antique brocades; to Miss Heggman for 

 seven brocaded and embroidered bags ; to Mrs. Robert de Forest for 

 two art textile bags; to Mrs. John Jay White for a brocade cope, a 

 square of brocade, and a Chinese embroidered costume; and to Mr. 

 X. X. Hekimian for a mosque hanging of blue velvet embroidered in 

 gold. A table cover of Genoese velvet was received from Mrs. Pin- 

 chot, and an old Spanish brocade vestment from the mission of San 

 Xavier del Bac, near Tucson, Arizona, from Maj. George F. Foote, 

 United States Army (retired), both as gifts. 



Miss Emily Tuckerman also deposited a fine silk Persian rug and 

 three tapestries, consisting of a Verdura, a panel of Flemish weave, 



