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 246
Italian patterns. I In a piece of satin and coloured silk brocade, period Louis XIV., French,1 ite seventeenth century, the bands forming the ogees are broad and elaborated withsmall trellisings and spots, which lace fanciers will recognise as being very similarto the a jours so frequently… … ARGENTAN LACE. 75 The reseau ground, introduced about 1700, naturally introduced afiner, more minute floral genre of design, and a new style began todeclare itself, associated with the reign of Louis XV. Here, as infurniture and decoration generally, the symmetrical tendency wasoverthrown and…
Lace and lace making
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