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 146
e exported to Spain and the colonies. Thepattern which consists of detached and fantastic cut-up forms ofvarying widths, sprays, ribbons, flowers, &c, lightened by manyvarieties of open work, grille, and veinings of pin-holes, &c, showsoften an architectural and balanced arrangement. A… … FLOUNCE OR BORDER OF FLEMISH (?) LACE.Seventeenth century. FLANDERS LACE. 41 the Gruuthus Collection, however, as are attributed to Mechlin, inother collections are assigned to Antwerp. It is probable that itwas a widely spread type of lace in Flanders, from which Mechlin,Valenciennes, &c,…
Lace and lace making
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