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 310
M LOUIS XV. TO THE PRESENT TIME. 297 the regularity of the meshed grounds. No better, lacecan be found to assimilate with, and adorn, light texturessuch as gauze and muslin. It is admirably suited forbarbes and headdresses, and our grandmothers showedcunning appreciation of its appropriateness in… … Fig. 139.—Mechlin lace (eighteenth century). character; the principal difference between them andMechlin being in the less elaborated make of theirgrounds, in which the meshes are made by twisting,not plaiting, threads; the other portions of the lace areof the same make as Mechlin. In the country…
Lace and lace making · Embroidery
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