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 311
herefore made with black flax.The earliest form of mesh in Chantillylace grounds is a lozenge, crossed at its two oppositepoints by horizontal threads. Grounds with meshes ofthis description are termed fonds chant, an abbreviationof the name Chantilly (fig. 142). The fillings introducedinto the… … Fig. 140.—Whitethread pillow lace(Bayeux). FROM LOUIS XV. TO THE PRESENT TIME. 299 its sister centres of manufacture, withstood the tempta-tion of imitating the mesh common to Alencon grounds,which for a long time has been employed in almost allother black laces. Black lace, however, has not been…
Lace and lace making · Embroidery
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