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 307
ast thirtyyears a lace termedValenciennes-Brabant hasbeen made, in which thedivision of labour, com-mon to Flemish laces, hasbeen adopted. Instead ofbeing made in one piece,as is the case with Valen-ciennes lace, the flowersand ornaments are madefirst and the groundworkis then inserted betweenthem.… … Fig. 136.—Modern Valenciennes(Ypres) lace, with squaremesh ground. FROM LOUIS XV. TO THE PRESENT TIME. 295portions of the ornament and flowers, etc., being more
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