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 255
* of a model workshop for needlepoint laces,where the makingof many varietiesof point lace isrevived which, ifnot forgotten, hadcertainly beenabandoned sincethe Revolution.Every sort ofneedlepoint lacemade during thebest periods canbe produced now.The name PointColbert, adopted ingrateful memoryof… … Fig. 108.—Point dArgentan, modernmanufacture. FROM LOUIS XV. TO THE PRESENT TIME. 243 cisely the same fashion as that of those laces madeby the Venetian mistresses of their craft who werebrought to Alencon in 1665 (see figs. 109 and in).Belgium has not been behindhand in the matter ofneedlepoint…
Lace and lace making · Embroidery
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