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 311
298 II. LACES. became the rallying point of the lace-makers from the Ile-de-France. After producing lace of modest artistic pretension, such as gueuse and the Point de Paris, which latter was a sort of second-rate Mechlin or Valenciennes type of lace, Chantilly suddenly achieved a reputation by… … quently imagine that Chantilly black Fig. 140.— White lace is therefore made with black flax. thread pillow lace (Bayeux). The earliest form of mesh in Chantilly lace grounds is a lozenge, crossed at its two opposite points by horizontal threads. Grounds with meshes of this description are termed…
Lace and lace making · Embroidery
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