Point and pillow lace : a short account of various kinds ancient and modern, and how to recognize them (1899)
Sharp, Mary · New York : E.P. Dutton ; London : J. Murray · leaf 195
1685, another immigration of foreign lace-makers tookplace, this time from the French provinces borderingon Flanders, and it is doubtless to these last that thedistinctly Flemish character of the old Bedfordshireand Buckinohamshire Lace is to be attributed. Again, in 1794 it is recorded in the… … 1)■a S s CQ 03CO m 174 BUCKINGHAMSHIRE LACE 175 The Lace of the two counties may be classed to-gether as being practically the same. They belong-to that class of Lace which is worked in one pieceon the pillow (see p. 126), and in their generalcharacter and style of design they strongly resemblethe…
Lace and lace making
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