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 149
ny useum). cerned embroideries at court only, and did not affect those on ecclesiasticalvestments, the output of which was always consider-able. Louis XIII., on the advice of his famousminister, Cardinal Richelieu, must have been carefulto avoid doing anything to militate against the pro-duction of… … SIXTEENTH CENTURY TO DEATH OF LOUIS XIV. 137 his Majestys embroiderer Alexandre Paynet, for pre-sentation to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre atJerusalem. As a specimen of the character of ecclesiastical workdone at this period we give a cut (fig. 63) of a hand-some chasuble, belonging to Messrs.…
Lace and lace making · Embroidery
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