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Point and pillow lace : a short account of various kinds ancient and modern, and how to recognize them (1899)

Sharp, Mary · London : J. Murray · leaf 195

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nother 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. o Again, in 1794 it is recorded in the… … -aC/3 5Ed cd P2 m 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 p. 126), and in their generalcharacter and style of design they strongly resemblethe…

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