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Title: Embroidery and lace: their manufacture and history from the remotest antiquity to the present day. A handbook for amateurs, collectors and general readers
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Lefébure, Ernest, b. 1835 Cole, Alan S. (Alan Summerly), 1846-1934
Subjects: Lace and lace making Embroidery
Publisher: London, H. Grevel
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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Fig. 136.—Modern Valenciennes(Ypres) lace, with squaremesh ground. FROM LOUIS XV. TO THE PRESENT TIME. 295portions of the ornament and flowers, etc., being more
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Fig. 137.—Flounce of Valenciennes-Brabant lace. filmy than those in Valenciennes laces. It is indeedthe most supple of all laces ; but a more distinguishing 296 II. LACES. feature in it is the fine bright thread which outlines allthe ornamental shapes in it. Before the meshed ground,ultimately adopted as the more suitable, was decided on,various attempts and experiments were made, as in thecase of the Valenciennes ground, and amongst these anotable snow ground (fond de neige, see fig. 138) sur-vived for some time. Atlength, however, a normaltype of ground with smallhexagonal meshes, some-what resembling that ofBrussels pillow lace, onlywith shorter plaited sidesto each mesh, was adopted.It is without question theprettiest of all pillow-madegrounds. Mechlin lace wasin great request during thereign of Louis XV., andthe rococo style of ornamentprevailed in its designs. Tosome extent in their light-ness and transparence theymay be compared with simi-lar patterns upon contempo-rary engra

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