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 280
TO THE END OF THE REIGN OF LOUIS XIV. 26/ told of an old woman — somewhat of a sorceress, no doubt — who, noticing the kindly devotion of the good Chatelaine of St. Annaberg in instructing the poor peasant women to make pillow lace, foretold that St. Anne would reward her in making her children … Fig. 123.— Portrait attributed to Van Mierevelt, 1568 — 164 1 (belonging to M. G. Duplessis). prosper, in allowing none to die during her lifetime, and in multiplying their descendants so that they should be as numerous as the bobbins in the district. The prediction was approximately verified,…
Lace and lace making · Embroidery
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