Embroidery and lace: their manufacture and history from the remotest antiquity to the present day. A handbook for amateurs, collectors, and general readers (1888)
Lefebure, Ernest, 1835-, Cole, Alan S · Lond., H. Grevel and co. · leaf 235
THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. 221 dresses ; besides these, handkerchiefs, fichus, scarves, mantillas thrown over the head, and mantles across the shoulders, were all trimmed with lace. Berain and Le Brun gave a new and most artistic turn to patterns for laces, which fully justified the success achieved.… … It may be gathered, Fig> 99.__Fragment of an alb or from What We have Said, rochet of Point de France (from an engraving by Drevet ot Hcssuet's that towards the end of portrait), the seventeenth century the make of French laces was identical with that of the Venetian, the difference between the two…
Embroidery · Lace and lace making
Internet Archive · Getty Research Institute · Public domain (published before 1931). Free to use for anything.
![An illustration from [Catalog]. (1908)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-catalog00macy-233-584.webp)
