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History of lace (1902)

Palliser, Bury, Mrs., 1805-1878, Jourdain, Margaret, Dryden, Alice · New York : C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 596

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Old Flemish.—(Newport-Pagnel.) 140, 141, 142). The point ground was used, the patternstaken from those of Lille and Mechlin—hence the lacesof Buckingham and Bedfordshire have often been styled the fashion in the \ - mother- English Lille. Though Fig. 137. … Old Brussels.—(Northampton.) country passed away, the American ladies held to thetrimmed infants cap until the breaking out of the CivilWar ; and up to that date large quantities of baby lace were exported to America, the finer sorts varying from fiveshillings to seven shillings and sixpence a…

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