Embroidery and lace : their manufacture and history (1899)
Lefébure, Ernest, b. 1835, Cole, Alan Summerly, 1846-1934 · London : H. Grevel · leaf 233
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… … It may be gathered, pjg gg — Fragment of an alb or from what we have said, rochet of Point de France (from an . . . . _ engraving by Drevet of Bossuet’s that towards the end of portrait). the seventeenth century the make of French laces was identical with that of the Venetian, the difference…
Embroidery · Lace and lace making
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