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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. 146. — Pillow-laceflower for appliquelace (Flemish). single flower with 306 II. LACES. tions were small bars of three or four threads plaitedtogether. These bars would sometimes be enrichedwith little loops (picots). Separate ornaments and
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Fig. 147.—Linen and white thread Flemish guipure curtain. flowers with intervening looped bars or tyes (bar-rettes picotees), are the main features of Guipure deFlandres, a class of lace much in demand during theseventeenth century. Fine trimmings for albs and FROM LOUIS XV. TO THE PRESENT TIME. 307 such-like were made in it ; and although its textureis flat and without reliefs, it derives a richness ofeffect from the ample and soft folds into which itfalls. Bruges was specially noted for making this classof lace. For furniture purposes Flemish guipures have beenconsiderably used, inrespect of hangingsand trimmings aboutbeds, toilet tables,and such-like (figs.147 and 149). Honiton Lace (fig.146).—But they havealso been used forladies costume. InDevonshire, Honitonhas created and main-tained a reputationfor making pillow-laceguipures in the samemanner as Bruges atan earlier date. Butthere is a markeddifference of style in pattern between theBruges andthe Honiton laces.* Duchesse La

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