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 223
Plate LXXI. … ALENCON LACE. 65 designs were jealously protected. None had permission to make thefine point of the royal pattern, except those who worked for themanufactory, and all girls had to show to the authorities the patternsthey intended working, so that the King shall be satisfied, and thepeople gain a…
Lace and lace making
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