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 321
FROM LOUIS XV. TO THE PRESENT TIME. 307 such-like were made in it ; and although its texture is flat and without reliefs, it derives a richness of effect from the ample and soft folds into which it falls. Bruges was specially noted for making this class of lace. For furniture purposes Flemish… … an earlier date. But fig- 148.— Pillow-made lace, Duchesse guipure (of Belgian make). there is a marked difference of style in pattern between the -Bruges and the Honiton laces.* Duchesse Lace. — In Belgium, the lighter sorts of guipures are called Guipure Duchesse (see fig. 148). * Besides the…
Embroidery · Lace and lace making
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