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Point and pillow lace; a short account of various kinds, ancient and modern, and how to recognise them (1905)

Sharp, Mary · London, J. Murray · leaf 146

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f Chantilly. (See Fig. 8, Illustra-tion 11.) It is generally used in conjunction withthe Fond simple of Lille. The pattern ofChantilly Lace is outlined with a cordonnet of afiat untwisted silk strand. BLONDE, also made in the same districts, has a reseau ofthe Lille type made of fine twisted silk,… … 115 BLOxNDE 117 The manufacture of silk Lace at Chantilly and inthe neiohbourhood was estabHshed in the seventeenthcentury by the Duchesse de Longueville, and owingto her patronage and also probably to the vicinity ofParis it became for a time very popular. At theRevolution the demand for it, of…

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