The romance of lace : its historical background, its present manufacture, its varieties and uses (1920)
Chicago : Zion Lace Industries · leaf 13
rs of high station. The restrictive edicts and suppressive measures caused many of the lacemakers to flee to Holland, whence some later emigrated to England. While it appears, in a superficial resume of lace history, that the manufacture was centered in France, Belgium, England and Italy, fine… … prying into tailors' shops for foreign-made fabrics. In 1752 a large amount of precious lace was seized and burned publicly. So prevalent had the custom of smuggling become, and so desperate were the officials, that when the body of the Duke of Devonshire was returned from France, 12
Lace and lace making
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