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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 174

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uchet, Mechlin laces are les plus belles, apres celles de Bruxelles,et elles ont un peu plus de durce. It was eminently suited to theless severe modern costume which came in with the eighteenth century,and by reason of its open a jours and transparent appearance was worn * Specimens of Mechlin lace…

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