Palliser, Bury, Mrs., 1805-1878, Jourdain, Margaret, Dryden, Alice · New York : C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 625
e should place its fabrication at the begnmingof the eighteenth century, for it was long before the Devon-shire lace-makers could rival in beauty the cordonnetof the Flemish workers. Fig. 154 is an example of the pattern worked in, thefavourite design of the butterfly and the acorn, alreadyfamiliar… … by the fashion of classical dress. Lace became no longernecessary to a ladys wardrobe, and the demand for it declinedto a serious extent for the w^orkers. Worse than these,however, was the introduction of the machine net, the firstfactory being set up at Tiverton in 1815. Lysons writesshortly…
Lace and lace making
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