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 192
VALENCIENNES AND DUTCH LACE. 57 short artistic revival had no permanent result; in 1800 there wereonly a few hundred lace-workers within the walls; and in 1851, inspite of the efforts of Napoleon III. to revive the industry, there wereonly two lace-workers remaining, both upwards of eighty years of…
Lace and lace making
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