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 321
Fig. 148.—Pillow-made lace, Duchesseguipure (of Belgian make). * Besides the guipure laces, Honiton and other villages in Devon-shire occasionally produce laces with a ground of regular meshes.Latterly some superior specimens have been made, in which thismeshed ground is of needlepoint work. On the… … Fig. 149.—Flemish guipure for furniture purposes. and tyes in Flemish guipures disappeared, and lengths Honiton lace has conserved its guipure character. At the same time,there is no reason why it should not make new departures andachieve as high a success with these as with the styles of…
Lace and lace making · Embroidery
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