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Title: A history of hand-made lace : dealing with the origin of lace, the growth of the great lace centres, the mode of manufacture, the methods of distinguishing and the care of various kinds of lace
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Jackson, Emily, 1861-
Subjects: Lace and lace making
Publisher: London : L. Upcott Gill New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library

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Cluny Guipure Lace, made to ornament a bed-quilt belonging to Louis XIII ; seventeenth century. of the same pattern and make which were not actually produced at Valenciennes.Since the decay of lace-making in its native city, the terms fausse and vrai, with A DICTIONARY OF LACE. 139 regard to Valenciennes lace, have died out, though often mentioned by those whodo not see the absurdity of the distinction. The story was set on foot in 1804 byM. Dieudonne, who states : This beautiful lace is so characteristic of the place,that it is a fact that if a piece of Valenciennes lace is begun in the town andfinished outside the walls, the commencement will be the more perfectly executedpart, even though the same work-woman twist the bobbins with the same thread.

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