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 150
an the ground of brides is the reseau, of which there aresome good specimens in the Victoria and Albert Museum. Onespecimen shows the tendency to naturalistic treatment of flowers in theeighteenth century, and has its floreated scroll pattern ornamentedwith tulips, primulas, and poppy-pods, acorns,… … <►J BRUSSELS LACE. 43 Brussp:ls Lace. There is at present no information as to the date when the manu-facture of Brussels lace began. In the eighteenth century it wasfamous, as Lord Chesterfield wrote in 1741, as the place where mostof the fine laces are made }-ou see worn in England. The…
Lace and lace making -- History
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