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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 215

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e was a good andpatient prince, anxious to see progress made with theindustries of his country. In 1607 he called the RoyalTapestry Manufactory into being. Previously, in 1598,he had had planted in the Bois de Boulogne fifteenthousand mulberry trees which had been brought fromMilan by one Balbani,… … Fig. 94.—A dandy discarding his laces (after Abraham Bosse). kings first minister, did not harmonize with such pre-occupations. You want iron and soldiers, said he THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. 203 to his master, and not laces and silks to trick outfops ! In the face of absurd abuses through which…

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