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History of lace (1902)

Palliser, Bury, Mrs., 1805-1878, Jourdain, Margaret, Dryden, Alice · New York : C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 373

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whereas Valenciennes can only be made inlengths of eiojht inches without detachino; the lace from thepillow, the Dieppe point is not taken off, but rolled.^- It isnow no lonorer made. In 1826 a lace school was establishedat Dieppe, under the directicm of two sisters from the Conventof La Providence… … AvK .Makia. -Diepiif. having, by the substitution of the \alencicnncs for the oldDieppe stitch, introduced a new industry into the depart-ment. They make Valenciennes of every width, and aremost expert in the square grounds of the Belgian \alen-ciennes. made entirely of flax thread, unmixed with…

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