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 215
ALENCON LACE. 63 had given the Duchy of Alencon. About 1650, according to MadameDespierres, it appears from a letter of Favier-Duboulay, intendant ofAlencon, that points de Venise were successfully imitated and intro-duced into Alencon by une femme nommee La Perriere, fort habilea ces ouvrages, *…
Lace and lace making
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