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 254
und 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 Alenoon k bordure longue ( Livrejournal de Madame Eloffe, ed. the Comte de Reiset). t Modern Chantilly lace is no longer made at… … 2 w v/ ^ IJ < -■-^ i5 CIIA.NTILLV. 83 Witli the better imitation tliis is always the case, especiallyin the needle-run, w hich is the nearest to the i^enuine pillow-madearticle ; in this the net and design are made on the machine, therethe gimp or outlining of the design is run in b)- hand—hence…
Lace and lace making -- History
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