Hamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster), 1855-1926 · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 409
the earliest laces of the 16th century were de-signed by the women who wrought them, and bear the 315 A HISTORY OF ORNAMENT character of designs developed out of the process oftheir making, the later laces, those of the 17th and 18thcenturies, betray increasingly the influence of archi-tectural… … Fig. 230.—Brussels Point-Lace, Eighteenth Centubt. network, as in Brussels and Mechlin guipure (Fig.230) ; and that in which there is no such background,the design forming an openwork pattern. To enumer-ate and discuss the great variety of ornament motivesof the Flemish laces would require an…
Decoration and ornament
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