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 166
Fig. 70.—Embroidery ingold and pearls upon the wedding coat of tesque forms, monkeys, squirrels, the Grand Dau- H . phin, after St. clowns, and such-like at times pour- Aubin- trayed with great spirit, very finely worked, but often in very mediocre taste, were freely adopted. Francois Boucher, when… … Fig. 71.—Chair covered with superb embroidery, of the end of theseventeenth century. £54 I- EMBROIDERY. painter, supplied pastoral designs which, howevermannered, were always elegant. This counted stitch work on canvas is the easiest ofall embroideries, and many fashionable women appliedthemselves…
Lace and lace making · Embroidery
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