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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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hamp sont executees dans ces deux Alencon. The toile was flatter and fabriqiies, et les points ont ete et sont more compact. The workmanship dif- encore faits par les memes procedes de fered in character. On the clear bride fabrication, et avec les memes matieres ground this lace was more effective textiles, ^^^.•ites Madame Despierres. than the minuter workmanship of Mrs. Palliser, on the other hand, was Alencon; it more resembled the Vene- of opinion that the two manufactures tian. Indeed, so close is its resem- were distinct, though some lace- blance that many of the fine gami- makers near Ligneres-la-Doucelle tures de robe, aprons, and tunics that worked for both establishments. Alen- have survived the revolutionary storm 9on made the finest reseau; Argentan would be assigned to Venice, did not specially excelled in the bride. The their pedigree prove them to be of flowers of Argentan were bolder and the Argentan fabric (Mrs. Palliser, larger in pattern, in higher relief, 1869).
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To face page 204. ARGENTAN 205 soldiers, begs to have the royal arms placed over his door,and stipulates that Monthulay, his draughtsman and engraver,shall be exempted from all taxes except the capitation. TheArret obtained by Gruyard is dated July 24th, 1708. Guyards children continued the fabric. Monthulay wentover to another manufacturer, and was replaced in 1715 byJacques James, who, in his turn, was succeeded by hisdaughter, and she took as her partner one Sieur De La Leu.Other manufactures set up in competition with Guyards ;among others that of Madame Wyriot, whose factor, DuPonchel, was in open warfare with the rival house. The marriage of the Dauphin, in 1744, was a signal foropen hostilities. Du Ponchel asserted that MademoiselleJames enticed away his workmen, and claimed protection,on the ground that he worked for the king and the court.But on the other side, It is I, writes De La Leu to theintendant, on behalf of Mademoiselle James, that supplythe Chambre du Eoi for this y

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