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 258
l befound to be sewn on, and can easily be pulled away. In general, theweakest point of all machine-made lace is its edge. * 1787, Une paire de barbes de dentelle noire Alencon a bordure longue ( Livre Journal de Madame Eloffe, ed. the Comte de Reiset). t Modern Chantilly lace is no longer made at… … CHANTILLY. 83 With the better imitation this is always the case, especiallyin the needle-run, which is the nearest to the genuine pillow-madearticle ; in this the net and design are made on the machine, therethe gimp or outlining of the design is run in by hand—hence theterm needle-run lace. In the…
Lace and lace making
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