Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, Macmillan & Co., ltd. · leaf 260
, wrote the indignant Marechale de Luxem-bourg, and she sent to her granddaughter in derisionaprons and fichus of sail-cloth. The well-knownportrait of Madam Ro-land shows that theplainest neckerchiefswere worn. The accounts of thefamous Rose Bertin, thequeens favorite milliner,give little lace.… … Mrs. Armira Wilson Tyler. is the plain net upon which the pattern is worked.Tulle was originally made on a pillow. In 1768 net was first made by machinery; bobbin-net was invented in 1809. Pin-net, spider-net, bar-leycorn, all are advertised by that year. They markthe introduction of lace-making…
Costume · United States -- Social Life and Customs · United States -- Social life and customs To 1775
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