. History of lace . lons Chantilly. de meme blonde. This wonderful Inv. lie iJecc8 de la Duchesse de coiffure being finished with Un beau Mod hie. 1761. panache de quatre plumes couleurs ^ Inv. de deccs du Due de Duras. imperiales, 108 214 H]STORY OF LACE either at Cliantilly or Bayeux. The distinguishing featureof this lace is ilio, fond chant (an abbreviation of Chantilly),the six-pointed star reseau, or, as it is better described, adiamoncl crossed by two horizontal threads. Chantillv fell with 93. Beinor considered a Royal fabric,and its productions made for the nobility alone, its
. History of lace . lons Chantilly. de meme blonde. This wonderful Inv. lie iJecc8 de la Duchesse de coiffure being finished with Un beau Mod hie. 1761. panache de quatre plumes couleurs ^ Inv. de deccs du Due de Duras. imperiales, 108 214 H]STORY OF LACE either at Cliantilly or Bayeux. The distinguishing featureof this lace is ilio, fond chant (an abbreviation of Chantilly),the six-pointed star reseau, or, as it is better described, adiamoncl crossed by two horizontal threads. Chantillv fell with 93. Beinor considered a Royal fabric,and its productions made for the nobility alone, its unfortu-nate lace-workers became the victims of revolutionary fury,and all perished, with their patrons, on the scatiold. Wehear no more of the manufacture until the Empire, a periodduring which Chantilly enjoyed its greatest prosperity. In1805, white blonde became the rage in Paris, and the work-women were chiefly employed in its fabrication. TheChantilly laces were then in high repute, and much exported. Fig. Chantilly.—Keduccd.—From one of the Ordei- temp. Louis X^I. the black, especially, to Spain and her American colonies ;no other manufactories could produce mantillas, scarfs, andother large pieces of such great beauty. It was then theymade those rich large-patterned blondes called by. the French l)londes mates, by the Spaniards trapeada, the prevailingstyle since the First Empire. About 1835 black lace again came into vogue, and thelace-makers were at once set to work at making black silklaces with double ground, and afterwards they revived thehexagonal ground of the last century, called fond dAlencon,^^for the production of which they are celebrated. The lace industry has been driven away from Chantillyby the increase in the price of labour consequent on itsvicinity to the capital. The lace manufacturers, unable to - Sec presediug note. CHAN TILLY 215 pay .sudi high salaries, retired to (lisors, where in 1851 therewere from 8,000 to 9,000 lace-makers.
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