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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 183

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L … ANTWERP LACE. 53 The ground and ornament of Mechlin, like Valenciennes, aremade in one piece on the pillow, and many and various experimentalfancy groundings were tried before adopting the hexagon-meshedreseau made of two threads twisted twice on four sides, and fourthreads plaited three times on…

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