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 142
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.… … Fig. 60.—Coloured silk embroidery on linen of thesixteenth century (in the Cluny Museum). assistance of the ladies. Engraving on wood had beenpractised for a century. Maso di Finiguerra had givena new impulse to the use of engraved metal plates fromwhich impressions could be taken, and…
Lace and lace making · Embroidery
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