A History of Hand-Made Lace. Dealing with the Origin of Lace, the Growth of the Great Lace Centres, the Mode of Manufactures, the Methods of Distiuguishing and the Care of Various Kinds of Lace
A History of Hand-Made Lace. Dealing with the Origin of Lace, the Growth of the Great Lace Centres, the Mode of Manufactures, the Methods of Distiuguishing and the Care of Various Kinds of Lace
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...of machine increased prosperity. It was about 1840 that the lace-makers of Caen began the manufacture of black silk laces of the same pattern as the white and cream laces; so delicate are the tints of these latter that it is said that the women work in the open air during the summer to preserve the purity of colour, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...of machine increased prosperity. It was about 1840 that the lace-makers of Caen began the manufacture of black silk laces of the same pattern as the white and cream laces; so delicate are the tints of these latter that it is said that the women work in the open air during the summer to preserve the purity of colour, and in winter they sit in the lofts over the cow houses. These lofts being warmed by the breath of the animals, no fire is required with its inevitable smoke. The old blonde laces had a ground of coarse mesh; the later ones are finer, the designs in better proportion. It was at Chantilly that the double ground or Paris point was first used. It is strange that none of the authors of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries mention the town of Chantilly, which was the most important blonde lace-making centre outside Paris. Blonde de Fit. This is described under Mignonette Lace. Blonde Net Lace. Bobbin lace with a fine network ground and heavy pattern. Blonde lace has a silk reseau resembling that for which the thread laces of Lille are celebrated, and the toile is worked with a broad, flat strand, which glistens effectively; to this brightness blonde laces owe their popularity, for there is usually little artistic merit in their design. Such laces are made at Caen, Chantilly, Barcelona, and Catalonia, and they are more fully described under Blonde de Caen and Chantilly. Bobbin Lace. The correct name for lace made on i threads wound on bobbins. By this term t and eighteenth centuries to distinguish it from other hand-made laces which, though frequently supported on a pillow, were executed without bobbins. During the early part of the nineteenth century, when there was little accurate knowledge of lace, the custom of calling bobbin lace " pillo...
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