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 292
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 wassmuggled…
Lace and lace making -- History
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