Point and pillow lace; a short account of various kinds, ancient and modern, and how to recognise them (1905)
Sharp, Mary, 1903- · London: J. Murray · leaf 203
antes, in1685, 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 Buckinghamshire Lace is to be attributed. Again, in 1794 it is recorded in… … 174 BUCKINGHAMSHIRE LACE 175 The Lace of the two counties may be classed to-gether as being practically the same. They belongto that class of Lace which is worked in one pieceon the pillow (see pp. 126 and 127), and in theirgeneral character and style of design they stronglyresemble the Lace…
Lace and lace making
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