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 256
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… … Fig. 109.—Collar of needlepoint lace (modern) worked at Bayeux,and called Point Colbert. Brussels and its neighbourhood produce a vast quantityof ably wrought needlepoint laces, under the name of Point Gaze (fig. 107). The shawl (fig. no) is abeautiful specimen of such work. The feston or outlineto…
Lace and lace making · Embroidery
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