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 141
At this period it was the fashion for all ladies toapply themselves to embroidering. Catherine deMedicis was renowned for her skill in it. Brantometells us that she would gather round her her daughters,Claude, Elizabeth, and Margaret, with their cousins theGuises, and sometimes the exiled Mary… … SIXTEENTH CENTURY TO DEATH OF LOUIS XIV. 129 Elle adonnot son courageA /aire niaint bel onvrageDessus la toile, ct encorA joindre la soye et Ior* But for such broideries ladies required special patterns,and drawings of these would be passed from handto hand for each to make copies from them.…
Lace and lace making · Embroidery
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