The romance of lace, its historical background, its present manufacture, its varieties and uses (1920)
Zion Lace Industries, Marshall Field & Company · Chicago, Zion lace industries, owned and operated by Marshall Field & company · leaf 13
in 1780 fashion began to change. Lighter [ and less expensive laces of Brussels, Lille and Arrasbecame more popular, and when, during the war forliberty, foreign occupation decimated Valenciennespopulation, the wonderful art was nearly lost. THE VOGUE FOR ELABORATECHANTILLY LACES Chantilly, France,… … 10 Unhappily, however, the manufacture of old Chan-tilly and of all needle-point laces was discontinued withthe French Revolution, not to be revived for a periodof fifty years. The Revolution caused a decline in thepompous display of yards and yards of lace on costumes.The taste for the costly web…
Lace and lace making
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