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 167
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… … Fig. 72.—Embroidery with spangles and tinsel for a coat, Louis XVI.period (in the Museum of Art and Industry at Lyons). by the Revolution. The specimens themselves were,at the commencement of the Empire period, exhibitedon sale at Mademoiselle Dubucquois, who had beenpurveyor to the queen.*…
Lace and lace making · Embroidery
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