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 312
T 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 in such generaldemand as white laces. That it possesses… … scarves, for mantles and other articles of outdoorcostume, black lace is probably without a rival. After, as it were, making the fortune of Chantillyand the neighbouring districts as far as Gisors, formany years, the black lace industry disappeared fromthe suburbs of Paris, to be revived in…
Lace and lace making · Embroidery
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