Embroidery and lace: their manufacture and history from the remotest antiquity to the present dayA handbook for amateurs, collectors and general readers . lace as point dAngleterre. Of this we have evidence in a letter of the Due deLuynes written in 1638 :— To-day were brought to Madame de Luynes the 3io II. LACES. laces she had chosen for the Queen, which, afteruse, revert to the ladies of honour. They consist ofcoverlets trimmed with point dAngleterre for the bigbed, and of pillow-cases similarly trimmed. This setof things cost thirty thousand livres, Madame de Luynes not deeming itnecessary
Embroidery and lace: their manufacture and history from the remotest antiquity to the present dayA handbook for amateurs, collectors and general readers . lace as point dAngleterre. Of this we have evidence in a letter of the Due deLuynes written in 1638 :— To-day were brought to Madame de Luynes the 3io II. LACES. laces she had chosen for the Queen, which, afteruse, revert to the ladies of honour. They consist ofcoverlets trimmed with point dAngleterre for the bigbed, and of pillow-cases similarly trimmed. This setof things cost thirty thousand livres, Madame de Luynes not deeming itnecessary to giveorders as to re-newing the bestcoverlets belong-i n g to theQueen. This ex-tract shows thatit was the customfor the bed trim-mings of theQueen,upon theirrenewal eachyear, to pass intothe possession ofHer spending nomore than thirtythousand livres,Madame d eLuynes is to be credited with the exercise of an economyand discretion not displayed by her predecessors inoffice. Other decorations of a room would match those ofthe bed. The luxury displayed by Louis XV. inthis direction is historic. The Duchesse de Bourbon. Fig. 150.—Application lace, called Angleterre,on pillow-made mesh ground. FROM LOUIS XV. TO THE PRESENT TIME. 3II has a toilet table and her bonhomme completelydraped with spotted muslin and lengths of a beautiful dentelle aAngleterre. Monseigneur the Dauphin hadsix comb cases and a dozen pincushions trimmed with Angleterre And we may finally quote the Princesse de Condewho had two bathing cloaks trimmed with lace, anddrapery about her bath edged with wide would be difficult to further extend the employment,not to say the abuse, of laces ! The patterns for these appliques laces are generally-insignificant in design, consisting for the most part ofa few sprays or leaves, etc., scattered over a ground ofmeshes; this is obviously insufficient to give such laceartistic character. It will be well then to beware ofthe unst
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