Palliser, Bury, Mrs., 1805-1878, Dryden, Alice, Jourdain, Margaret · London : Sampson Low, Marston · leaf 235
the okl laces. (Fig. 65.) Thechange was accepted by fashion, and the Valenciennes lace<jf Yj)res has now attained a high degree of perfecticjn.Courtrai has made great advances towards rivalling Ypresin its productions. Not a hundred years since, when the laces of Valen-ciennes prospered, those… … Valexciennes Lace cif Yi-itEs. and ]\Ienin m West, Ghent and Alost in East, Flanders.When Peuchet wrote in the eighteenth century, he cites les-dentelles a Iinstar de Valenciennes of Courtrai as l)eing \\\favour, and generally sought after Itoth in England andFrance, while those of Bruges are…
Lace and lace making -- History
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