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 305
FROM LOUIS XV. TO THE PRESENT TIME. 291 pinholes to lighten with happy effect the close white surfaces. Comparatively primitive as this style is, it nevertheless contains the germs of the later and varied productions we now propose to allude to. Valenciennes Lace. — This did not acquire a distinc-… … Fig. 133. — Valenciennes lace with "snowy ground" (fond dc ncigc). at the time of Colbert was Le Quesnoy. But the Flemish mistresses of the craft clearly instructed the workers there to produce flat and closely made pillow lace such as we have described. This make of lace, especially in respect of…
Embroidery · Lace and lace making
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