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 244
introduced refinements in herproductions, and, in lieu of the vigorous scrolls withrich reliefs, such as she had made in the seventeenthcentury, she set herself to make the point de rose (rose- * Alan S. Cole, Les Dentelles Anciennes, translated by C. P. Haus-soullier. (The English edition is… … Fig. 102.—Venetian needlepoint lace (rosepoint), eighteenthcentury (belonging to Madame G. Dreyfus). lace of delicate scrolls enriched with many little off-shoots, held together by tiny bars or brides a picots, 232 II. LACES. and freely spotted with small blossoms consisting ofwreaths of…
Lace and lace making · Embroidery
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