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Bobbins of Belgium; a book of Belgian lace, lace-workers, lace-schools and lace-villages (1920)

Kellogg, Charlotte Hoffman · New York, London, Funk & Wagnalls · leaf 39

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FIFTEENTH CENTURY PORTRAIT Showing heavy brocade as yet unrelieved by linen or lace trimming … PORTRAIT OF CHARLES IX (1570) Linen collar showing picot edge made with tlie needle INTRODUCTION 33 in the hope of checking over-extrava-gance in dress. After its apogee under Louis XIV,lace-making was caught, along with theother arts, in the tide of degeneracy. Itsdesigns were marked by fantasy…

Brussells Lace Committee · Lace and lace making -- Belgium

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