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 283
n age. Many of the men there were employed as carriers—an occupation of considerable importance before goodhighways and the means of wheel traffic were known.These hardy mountaineers, travelling by short stages,with packs on their backs, undertook long journeys,and storing themselves in the Midi… … Fig. 125. Portrait of a courtier of the period of Louis XIII.(after Abraham Bosse). markets for them. Thus, no doubt, they returnedto their native districts with intelligence of the new TO THE END OF THE REIGN OF LOUIS XIV. 2JI industry of pillow lace-making, in the produce ofwhich considerable…
Lace and lace making · Embroidery
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