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 177
MECHLIN LACE. 51 as a trimming lace. It thus remained in fashion through the eighteenthcentury, when references like Mechlin the queen of lace,* Mechlinthe finest lace of all,f bear witness to a vogue in England little shortof extraordinary. The disappearance of lace ruffles before 1780 fromwomens…
Lace and lace making
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