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 327
, so freely referred to in the course of ourremarks upon pillow-made laces during the eighteenthcentury, culminated in the reign of Louis XVI. in onefor almost patternless laces of mesh grounds with aninsignificant little edging of loops. There were twokinds of such laces, distinguishable one from… … Fig. 152. -Lappet ot Modern Brussels mixed needlepointand pillow lace. FROM LOUIS XV. TO THE PRESENT TIME. 315 as a fabric when made in the town bearing its name.Tulle, the chief town of Correze, is not far distant fromAurillac ; the character of its lace being simple, it wasspeedily imitated by…
Lace and lace making · Embroidery
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