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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 38

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mmings are much sought ^ after and admired. CHANTILLY Is one of the most favored of laces,worked in silk in elaborate designs. It is ablonde lace, rich with festoons and flowers,made in openwork instead of being workedsolidly. Black Chantilly is very popular.During the 17th Century the Duchesse… … A Zion Cluny the lacemakers were sent to the guillotine.The manufacture of Chantilly lace wasthen discontinued, but revived with theEmpire, at which time it enjoyed itsgreatest popularity. The lace industrywas obliged to leave Chantilly because ofthe increase in the cost of labor; and now alace…

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