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 94
broidered bags and purses,which had the local name of tasques,* whence thestreet inhabited by the embroiderers was called theRue Tasquiere. They were sold all over Europe.Jacques de Cahaignes sent one as a gift of great valueto Joseph Scaliger when he became rector of the * From the Italian tasca,… … Fig. 35.—Pouch of French fourteenth-century work (in theBonnaffe collection). learn that as for Caen pouches, none made in othertowns can compare with them for choiceness, character,and exquisite materials, such as velvets of all colours, 6 82 I. EMBROIDERY. gold, silver, and other threads, or in…
Lace and lace making · Embroidery
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