Old world lace; or, A guide for the lace lover (1920)
Blum, Clara M · New York, E. P. Dutton & co · leaf 68
eallymade of a grenadine silk, which, owing to its lack ofluster, is often mistaken for thread. The distinguish-ing feature is the fond chant, or six-pointed star,mesh, of the earlier Chantilly, the lace of the last centuryoften having the hexagonal ground of the Alengon. Itwas made up into scarfs,… … lace that bore their names, but it is needless to enu-merate them here as they varied but little and canreadily come under the head of those laces that we havealready named. Cluny and Torchon These laces, made with a very coarse thread, areproduced in great quantities today in France for…
Lace and lace making
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