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 313
lmost wholly dependent upon agriculture. Suchpatient application as is indispensable in its practice,involving the constant use of a large number olbobbins, is rarely to be met with amongst dwellersin the vicinity of a great city like Paris. The make of Normandy black laces has been carriedto a… … Fig. 142.—Chantilly black lace with the grounds interchanged (thefond chant and the imitation Alencon ground). success at Bayeux, and defy all comparison with theearlier Chantilly laces. This specialty in gradation oftexture pertains to modern black lace, and is unknownin old laces of a cognate…
Lace and lace making · Embroidery
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