Embroidery and lace: their manufacture and history from the remotest antiquity to the present day. A handbook for amateurs, collectors and general readers (1888)
Lefébure, Ernest, b. 1835, Cole, Alan S. (Alan Summerly), 1846-1934 · London, H. Grevel · leaf 249
bedrooms. Never were dishabillesmore elegant; coverlets of beds, trimmings of cur-tains and pillow-cases, of toilet tables, etc., involveda consumption of laces far in excess of what had beennecessary for dresses in the preceding reign. The Marquise de Crequy, speaking of her aunt,the Dowager… … Fig. 104.—Fragment of Point dAlencon lace, early period of Louis XVI. that it is I who supplied laces for the kings chamberthis year, by order of the Due de Richelieu. I also FROM LOUIS XV. TO THE PRESENT TIME. 237 have the honour of furnishing the kings wardrobe, byorder of the Due de la…
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