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 306
ead or of any work in thenature of relief, conduces to facility in successfullywashing Valenciennes lace, which, of all laces, ismost easily ironed and suitable for being got upwith linen. The elegant dishabilles of duchesses and mar-chionesses in the eighteenth century were bedeckedwith exquisite… … .- . - - |§#!r - r •■--■ ^ - ■ ^-~^ Fig. 135.—Valenciennes lace (eighteenth century). work about them. These laces certainly justified theirreputation. Up to the period of the Revolution, the town ofValenciennes had been the centre of this particularindustry. Its name has always been associated…
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