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 280
Fig. 122.—Bobbin or pillow-madepassement (Musee des Arts decoratifs.) TO THE END OF THE REIGN OF LOUIS XIV. 267 told of an old woman—somewhat of a sorceress, nodoubt—who, noticing the kindly devotion of the goodChatelaine of St. Annaberg in instructing the poorpeasant women to make pillow lace,… … [Fig. 123. — Portrait attributed to Van Mierevelt, 1568—1641(belonging to M. G. Duplessis). prosper, in allowing none to die during her lifetime,and in multiplying their descendants so that theyshould be as numerous as the bobbins in the district.The prediction was approximately verified, since,…
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