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 297
be inevitable were we to deal with these laces 284 II. LACES. by historic periods analogous to those touched upon indescribing embroidery and needlepoint laces. At thesame time, it is but right to say that this plan of pro-ceeding cannot but be somewhat incomplete, since littleshort of a separate… … Fig. 127.—Guipure of Le Puy, also called Cluny lace. or the other of which other pillow laces are nearlyrelated. Passement.—The oldest class of bobbin or pillowlace is, as we have previously stated, that of passements,the light and open guipures figured in the pattern books.The making of these has…
Lace and lace making · Embroidery
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