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 296
to ourmanufactory by the importance of it to our own land ( MSS. of J. B. Fortescue,Esq., Hist. MSS. Comm., Thirteenth Report, appendix, part iii.). § Hence Bucks laces have been called English Lille. Lille was very popularin England. One-third of the lace manufactured in the Dep. du Nord… … INSERTIONS AND EDGING OF ENGLISH BOBBIN LACE.About beginning of nineteenth century. s
Lace and lace making
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