Palliser, Bury, Mrs., 1805-1878, Jourdain, Margaret, Dryden, Alice · New York : C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 235
flowers of the old laces. (Fig. 65.) Thechange was accepted by fc\shion, and the Valenciennes laceof Ypres has now attained a high degree of perfection.Courtrai has made great advances towards rivalling Ypre&in its productions. Not a hundred years since, when the laces of Valen-ciennes… … N ALKNCIKNNKS LACK tF VlKKS. and ]\Ienin m West, Ghent and Alost in East, Flanders..When Peuchet wrote in the eighteenth centurv, he cites lesdentelles a Iinstar de Valenciennes of Courtrai as l)emg mfavour, and generally sought after l)0th in England andFrance, while those of Bruges are merely…
Lace and lace making
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