Palliser, Bury, Mrs., 1805-1878, Dryden, Alice, Jourdain, Margaret · London : Sampson Low, Marston · leaf 355
ii^ exigen-cies of fashion requiring a superior class of lace, the work-w^omen arrived gradually at making point of remarkablefineness and superior execution. The lappet (Fig. 94) is agood example of the delicacy of the fine point de~ Paris. Fig. 94. … Point hk Paris.—EeiliKe<l. The ground resembles the fond chant, the six-pointed starmeshed reseau. Savary, who wrote in 1726, mentions how, in theChateau de Madrid, there had long existed a manufacture ofpoints de France.^ A second fabric was established by theComte de Marsan,* in Paris, towards…
Lace and lace making -- History
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