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 305
tions intervening 292 II. LACES. between the floral and ornamental devices. Little bylittle the intervening spaces were enlarged and sub-jected to different treatments. The small bar$ or tyes,to be noted in the prototypes of Valenciennes laces,were superseded by groupings of dots or pea formswhich,… … Fig. 134.—Valenciennes lace, seventeenth century (in the Musee desArts decoratifs). merits, as Escadrons de Neige (Squadrons of Snow)(fig. 133). After divers variations (fig. 134) in the making ofgrounds, the classic meshed ground, with which thename of Valenciennes has since become identified,…
Lace and lace making · Embroidery
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