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 304
mposed of * This industry is still kept up round about the little town of Cantuin the province of Milan. FROM LOUIS XV. TO THE PRESENT TIME. 29I pinholes to lighten with happy effect the close whitesurfaces. Comparatively primitive as this style is, itnevertheless contains the germs of the later… … Fig. 133.—Valenciennes lace with snowy ground (fondde neige). at the time of Colbert was Le Quesnoy. But theFlemish mistresses of the craft clearly instructed theworkers there to produce flat and closely made pillowlace such as we have described. This make of lace,especially in respect of floral…
Lace and lace making · Embroidery
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