Old lace : a handbook for collectors; an account of the different styles of lace, their history, characteristics & manufacture (1908)
Jourdain, Margaret · London : B. T. Batsford · leaf 108
rano laces at first suffered from the quality of the thread.One disadvantage long seemed unsurmountable, the coarseness and unevenness ofany thread that would then be found in Italy. This difficulty, which had so muchto do with the failure of the English lace trade in the seventeenth century,…
Lace and lace making
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