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 · London : H. Grevel · leaf 167
154 I- EMBROIDERY. painter, supplied pastoral designs which, however mannered, were always elegant. This counted stitch work on canvas is the easiest of all embroideries, and many fashionable women applied themselves to it. Marie Antoinette herself, with Madame Elisabeth, commenced some work of… … Fig. 72. — Embroidery with spangles and tinsel for a coat, Louis XVI. period (in the Museum of Art and Industry at Lyons). by the Revolution. The specimens themselves were, at the commencement of the Empire period, exhibited on sale at Mademoiselle Dubucquois', who had been purveyor to the queen.*…
Lace and lace making · Embroidery
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