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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 191

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nd moreopen, so that atlength many of thesespecial fabrics were nothing more than nets. Such netsgo by the name of lacis in France. Lacis accord-ing to the Dictionnaire Antique de Furretiere, publishedin 1684, is a sort of thread or silk formed into atissue of net or reseuil, the threads of which… … Fig. 86.—Design for a drawn threadwork(belonging to Madame Franck). THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 179

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