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 228
ALENCON LACE. 67 Louis XIV. the meshes show an exact hexagonal form. It will beremembered that in 1673 the nouveau point de Paris is describedin the Meniere as covered with an infinite number of small picots.The bride bouclee sans nez, also an hexagonal mesh, has no picots,and was invented about…
Lace and lace making
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