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Title: History of lace
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Palliser, Bury, Mrs., 1805-1878 Jourdain, Margaret Dryden, Alice
Subjects: Lace and lace making
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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the fabric was introduced, in 1855, by ^1. Auguste Lefebure,a manufacturer of that town. Departing from the oldcustom of assigning to each lace-maker a special branchof the work, the lace is here executed through all its stagesby the same worker. Perhaps the finest example of pointdAlen9on exhibited in 18G7 was the produce of the Oi
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To face page 200. ALENfON 201 Bayeux fabric; a dress consisting of two flounces, the pat-tern, flowers, and foliage of most artistic and harmoniousdesign, relieved by the new introduction of shaded tints,giving to the lace the relief of a picture.^ The ground(point a Iaiguille) was worked with the^ greatest smoothnessand regularity, one of the great technical difficulties whensuch small pieces have to be joined together. The price ofthe dress was 85,000 francs (£3,400). It took forty womenseven years to complete. In the Exhibition of 1889 in Paris, Alengon itself showedthe best piece of lace that had taken 16,500 working daysto make. 2^ This effect is produced by vary- grille, the more open part of the pat- ing the application of the two stitches tern. The system has been adopted used in making the flowers, the toile, in France, Belgium, and England, but which forms the close tissue, and the with most success in France. 202 HISTORY OF LACE CHAPTER XIV. ARGENT AN (Dep. Okne). Vous qui

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