Old lace, a handbook for collectors; an account of the different styles of lace, their history, characteristics & manufacture (1909)
Jourdain, Margaret · London, B. T. Batsford; New York, Charles Scribners sons · leaf 108
ano laces at first suffered from the quality of the thread.One disadvantage long seemed unsurmountable, the coarseness and unevenness ofany thread that would then be found in Italy. This ditificulty, which had so muchto do with the failure of the English lace trade in the seventeenth century,… … i/. z = z -
Lace and lace making -- History
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