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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
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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the smallest of the details in the lace orna-mentation at this period. We have no hesitation inattributing to this influence, for regularity in arrange-ment, the germs of that important transition to groundsof regular meshes. Little by little the intercrossingand arbitrarily placed bars or brides which contrastedpleasantly with the devices in the composition of apattern, were subjected to a regularity in arrange-ment. The fine flounce of Point de France (fig. ioo) filledwith personages, portraits, and emblems of the timeof Louis XIV., is an illustration of the transition toregular grounds just mentioned. The specimen hasfor many years been in the possession of MadameDupre of Tours; and Leon Palustre assigns a datebetween 1675 and 1680 for its production. Theground consists of bars with tiny loops on each,(brides a picots) similar in workmanship to Venetianbrides, but arranged in a series of hexagonal shapesthus forming a ground of regular large meshes, the THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. 223
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Fig. 100.—Flounce of Point de France, in the pattern of which areintroduced figures and attributes of Louis XIV.s reign. orderly arrangement of which corresponds with that 224 II. LACES. regulating the disposition of the larger devices in. thepattern. At this time Point de France is supreme. Watteauspainting of the Presentation of the Grand Dauphin in1668 displays the babe robed in Holland linenenriched with Points de France. When the Prince deConti marries Mademoiselle de Blois, the kings wed-ding gift is a set of toilet hangings, all trimmed withPoints de France. It is of Mademoiselle de Blois thatMadame de Sevigne writes in a letter dated 27thJanuary, 1674, describing her as beautiful as an angelwith a tablier and bavette of Point de France (a sortof panel on the front of the body to her dress, and alarge one on the front of the skirt). Before discussing the different classes of laces withmeshed grounds (a reseaux) we must say a few wordsabout the term which really applies to the

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