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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 196

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hteenth century. In an * En 1780 plusieurs milliers de dentellieres travaillaient dans lenceinte de laville, gcneralement dans des caves ou des chambres basses. Grace a lhumidite1 lefil etait de retors, 011 ne se detordait pas, et conservait toute sa force (A. Carlier, Les Valenciennes). t Le fil… … VALENCIENNES AND DUTCH LACE. 59 extract from the Proces Verbaux du Bureau du Commerce, 1727, itis stated that in Holland or in England it would be impossible toconserver les filets dans le point de fraicheur et dhumidite convenablespour faijonner des toillettes. * According to Peuchet the sole…

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