Bobbins of Belgium; a book of Belgian lace, lace-workers, lace-schools and lace-villages . FIFTEENTH CENTURY PORTRAIT Showing heavy brocade as yet unrelieved by linen or lace trimming. PORTRAIT OF CHARLES TX (1570) collar showing picot edge made with tlie needle INTRODUCTION 33 in the hope of checking over-extrava-gance in dress. After its apogee under Louis XIV,lace-making was caught, along with theother arts, in the tide of degeneracy. Itsdesigns were marked by fantasy and gro-tesqueness, rather than by the delicacyand beauty of the preceding period; thowhile it deteriorated in desig
Bobbins of Belgium; a book of Belgian lace, lace-workers, lace-schools and lace-villages . FIFTEENTH CENTURY PORTRAIT Showing heavy brocade as yet unrelieved by linen or lace trimming. PORTRAIT OF CHARLES TX (1570) collar showing picot edge made with tlie needle INTRODUCTION 33 in the hope of checking over-extrava-gance in dress. After its apogee under Louis XIV,lace-making was caught, along with theother arts, in the tide of degeneracy. Itsdesigns were marked by fantasy and gro-tesqueness, rather than by the delicacyand beauty of the preceding period; thowhile it deteriorated in design, its tech-nique grew constantly finer and morecomplicated, until, from the point of viewof the workmanship at least, it seemedalmost superhuman. But in the secondhalf of the i8th century, wearied of com-plications and extravagance, peopleamused themselves by a return to sim-plicity. The Marquise de Pompadouraffected laces sown with simple flowers,and Marie Antoinette went further inpreferring a pattern of scattered pointsor peas. With this return to the primi-tive in design, the technique of lace re-verted also. In many quarters, the sheer 34. INTRODUCTION muslins of the Indi
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