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 242
Despierresin her history of Alencon laces. The facility withwhich this twisted bride mesh could be made, con-duced to simpler and more economical work, theresults of which obtained considerable vogue in themiddle of the eighteenth century, and were generallyknown (especially in laces with large… … Fig. IOI.—Point dAlencon with hexagonal bride ground or resean,commencement of the eighteenth centur}. dAlencon class) are frequently of the choicest descrip-tion. 230 II. LACES. But the grounds of regular meshes led to an impover-ishment in the patterns of laces, and when this wasperceived,…
Lace and lace making · Embroidery
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