Two ingenious young Kogmollyc belles had placed applique pockets mid-leg on their lower garments.
"The New North"
Agnes Deans Cameron
The bearers of offerings, friends, and slaves passed over on hired barges, whose cabins, covered externally with embroidered stuffs of several colours, or with applique leather, looked like the pedestals of a monument: crammed together on the boats, they stood upright with their faces turned towards the funeral bark.
"History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 6 (of 12)"
G. Maspero
The most common lace is the Point applique, in which the sprays, groups, and borders on the design are made separately by hand on the pillow, and are afterwards applied by tiny stitchings to the machine-made net.
"Chats on Old Lace and Needlework"
Emily Leigh Lowes