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 186
between 1665-70, and the lace,which is straight-edged, has a thin scroll pattern upon a reseauground. * The name chant is an abbreviation of Chantilly, in which lace the fond-chantreseau is much used. t No. 1570, 1872, Victoria and Albert Museum, is a border of Antwerp lace witha loosely twisted… … [ 55 ] CHAPTER XI. Valenciennes and Dutch Lace. VALENCIENNES, part of the ancient province of Hainault, togetherwith Lille and Arras, is French by conquest and treaty.* The lacefabric was introduced there from Le Quesnoy, one of the townsmentioned in the ordinance of 5th August 1665, which founded…
Lace and lace making
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