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 320
sed, inrespect of hangingsand trimmings aboutbeds, toilet tables,and such-like (figs.147 and 149). Honiton Lace (fig.146).—But they havealso been used forladies costume. InDevonshire, Honitonhas created and main-tained a reputationfor making pillow-laceguipures in the samemanner as Bruges atan… … Fig. 148.—Pillow-made lace, Duchesseguipure (of Belgian make). * Besides the guipure laces, Honiton and other villages in Devon-shire occasionally produce laces with a ground of regular meshes.Latterly some superior specimens have been made, in which thismeshed ground is of needlepoint work. On the…
Lace and lace making · Embroidery
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