FIG. 73.--An embroidered stocking  FIG. 74.-An open-work stocking 
  showing the further evolution of    of 19o5. 
  the clock (date x9oo). 
 
quite evident from    the shape, which is shown in 
Figure 7ý. 
  This ornamentation has been carried still further, 
though it is not produced in the same way. The 
patterns, instead of being embroidered, are the result 
of perforations, or, in    more   technical language, 
"open-work," and the background which shows up 
the design is no longer the material of the stockings, 
but the skin of their fair wearers. (See Figure 74.) 
 
 
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