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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 317

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Fig. 144.—Light blonde of white silk (Caen). with thin silk thread, alternate with the compact partsof flat and stouter silken thread ; this variety is termedBlonde mi-genre. The mantilla, the national headdress of Spanishwomen in Europe and America, is made in both sorts ofblonde, blondes mates… … Fig. 145.—Black close-patterned (mate) blonde (Spanish style made atBayeux). FROM LOUIS XV. TO THE PRESENT TIME. 305 mantilla is rapidly being supplanted by the modernbonnet and hat. Barcelona and Bayeux are the twoprincipal centres for the manufacture of mantillas; andone may hope that the…

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