A history of hand-made lace : Dealing with the origin of lace, the growth of the great lace centres, the mode of manufacture, the methods of distinguishing and the care of various kinds of lace ... (1900)
Jackson, Emily, "Mrs. F. Nevill Jackson,", 1861- · London : L.U. Gill ; New York : C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 163
in Dorsetshire : This city is chiefly famous formaking the finest bone lace in England ; they showed us some, so exquisitely fine,as I think I never saw better in Flanders, France, or Italy; and which, they said,they rated above £^o sterling a yard. This was in 1731. Soon after the whole I20… … Black Lace of Caen and Bayeux (much reduced) ; nineteenth century. Blonde de Caen. A silk bobbin-made lace. It was about 1745 that the blonde laces, whichhave rendered Caen famous, first appeared ; both black and white flax threadlaces had formerly been made in the neighbourhood. At first the…
Lace and lace making
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