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, 1861- · London : L. Upcott Gill ; New York : C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 210
g the wearing of the precious metals,the lace-makers worked out their patterns in flax thread ;and when they found how much easier of manipulationwas the substituted material, more intricate designs wereattempted, graceful stitches invented, and so the flax threadlace was gradually evolved, and has… … l62 HISTORY OF HAND-MADE LACE. success for gold and silver thread lace, or Point dEspagne, was attained inthe latter half of the seventeenth century. Though called Spanish lace, therewas far more of it made at Aurillac and Lyons than in Spain. The Jews expelledfrom Spain in the fourteenth century…
Lace and lace making
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