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 254
-12), since which period ithas declined. In 1800, the laces of Lille and Arras were the onlydentelles communes in vogue, and their strength, whiteness, and lowprice assured them a market. * Les dentelles qui se fabriquent a Arras dans la maison de la Providence etqui passent pour etre assez belles,… … EDGINGS OR BORDERS OF LILLE. [ 8i ] CHAPTER XIV.Chantilly. Chantilly, in the department of Oise, is the centre of a districtlong famous for its silk laces, in black and white, the manufacturehaving been established in the seventeenth century by the Duchessede Longueville; the name of a lace-maker,…
Lace and lace making
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