Embroidery and lace: their manufacture and history from the remotest antiquity to the present dayA handbook for amateurs, collectors and general readers . lles Gantes, auntsof the Abbe Gantes, who succeeded M. de Talleyrandas Bishop of Autun, and met his death at the guillotineafter having been president of the constituent was certainly manu-factured at Tulle in theeighteenth century, and bysome fortuitous . circum-stance the name of the towncame to be given to allsimple net grounds (reseaux)produced by the these a considerablevariety has been manu-factured with suffic
Embroidery and lace: their manufacture and history from the remotest antiquity to the present dayA handbook for amateurs, collectors and general readers . lles Gantes, auntsof the Abbe Gantes, who succeeded M. de Talleyrandas Bishop of Autun, and met his death at the guillotineafter having been president of the constituent was certainly manu-factured at Tulle in theeighteenth century, and bysome fortuitous . circum-stance the name of the towncame to be given to allsimple net grounds (reseaux)produced by the these a considerablevariety has been manu-factured with sufficientdifferences to entitle eachsome qualifying title, such as Brussels tulle, Mechlintalk, bobbin tulle, tulle illusion, tulle point desprit, etcOriginally, however, tulle was merely a lace of simpleand regular meshes, almost bereft of ornament, and wascalled tulle a fil (thread net). Marli lace no doubt takes its name from the villagebetween Versailles and St. Germain, where Louis his celebrated residence. The peculiarity of thislace consisted of its innumerable little square spotsdotted over the gauzy tulle, which was frequently further. Fig. 153.—Bit of Modern Brus-sels application lace, withthe roses worked inneedlepoint. sort to be called by 3l6 II. LACES. embellished with light embroidery. It was used forruches and cloud-like, vaporous coverings. Thepatterns of Tulle and Marli lace, whenever there wereany, were composed of different little dots, little peas,or rosettes, but more often of little spots called pointd1 esprit. Tulle and Marli lace was much worn by MarieAntoinette during the latter years of her life; entriesof them occur over and over again with those forblondes and embroidered linens in Madame Eloffesaccounts with the Queen. Taste grew poorer andpoorer, so far as ornamental lace was concerned, andwhen one meets with typical items like a gauze fichutrimmed with white pretention it is not difficult torealize that the art of lace as previously known,
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