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 287
direction. When the demandfor wider trimmings arose, increased width of lace wasobtained by adding a passement or dentated borderto the band— bande et passement In the sixteenthcentury similar means were resorted to. But in theseventeenth century the making of wide laces wasattempted. Then arose… … Fig. 126.—Louis XIV. when a child, after a portrait by Mignard. the pieces of which could be stitched together. InBelgium another means was invented ; this consistedof dividing the pattern, not by bands, but into small TO THE END OF THE REIGN OF LOUIS XIV. 275 and separate pieces, the boundaries of…
Lace and lace making · Embroidery
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