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 277
monopoly, according to their statutes of1663 (article 21), of making all sorts of passements oflacework on the pillow, with bobbins, pins, and byhand (probably in this case with a hooked or crochetneedle), in gold and silver thread, both real and false,in silk, and white and coloured thread. In the… … Fig. 121.—A bobbin or pillow-made passement of the sixteenth century. TO THE END OF THE REIGN OF LOUIS XIV. 265 show an entry : For two ells of silver passement withdeep dentations (haute dantelle), to be used as a facing,at sixty sols the ell.* An inventory (1645) °f the Church of St. Medard,at…
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