pasting lace

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The strips wood covered with headlining cloth , when nailed on could be fixed with escutcheon pins where the slightly larger head is shown flush with the cloth, OR with finer pins with smaller heads hammered flush with the cloth and then a fine skewer is used to adjust the cloth weave to wriggle over the head. Finally rubbing the weave to eliminate the disturbance, thus making the fixing invisible.
Pre-nailing the wood before covering and then hammering them into place would lead to fractured threads.