Singleton, Esther, Mentor Association, Inc · New York : Mentor Association · leaf 8
n) tried to suppress the importation of foreign laces and to improve the home manufactures by introducing patterns from Italy. But it was Colbert^(coll-bare), Louis XIVs prime min- isteiywho made French lace an item of trade, He said: Fashion should be to France what the mines of Peru were to… … VENETIAN ROSE POINTThe most complicated of laces
Lace and lace making
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