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 152
BRUSSELS LACE. 43 Brussels Lace. There is at present no information as to the date when the manu-facture of Brussels lace began. In the eighteenth century it wasfamous, as Lord Chesterfield wrote in 1741, as the place where mostof the fine laces are made you see worn in England. The Beguinagewas a…
Lace and lace making
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