Embroidery and lace: their manufacture and history from the remotest antiquity to the present dayA handbook for amateurs, collectors and general readers . robably without a rival. After, as it were, making the fortune of Chantillyand the neighbouring districts as far as Gisors, formany years, the black lace industry disappeared fromthe suburbs of Paris, to be revived in Normandyabout Caen and Bayeux, where, during the presentcentury, it has been extensively followed. Accordingto Felix Aubry, upwards of sixty thousand workers arethere engaged in it at their homes. It has become avaluable auxili
Embroidery and lace: their manufacture and history from the remotest antiquity to the present dayA handbook for amateurs, collectors and general readers . robably without a rival. After, as it were, making the fortune of Chantillyand the neighbouring districts as far as Gisors, formany years, the black lace industry disappeared fromthe suburbs of Paris, to be revived in Normandyabout Caen and Bayeux, where, during the presentcentury, it has been extensively followed. Accordingto Felix Aubry, upwards of sixty thousand workers arethere engaged in it at their homes. It has become avaluable auxiliary means of livelihood in a district 300 II. LACES. almost wholly dependent upon agriculture. Suchpatient application as is indispensable in its practice,involving the constant use of a large number olbobbins, is rarely to be met with amongst dwellersin the vicinity of a great city like Paris. The make of Normandy black laces has been carriedto a higher condition than previously attained any-where else. Patterns in which flowers and ornamentalmotifs are rendered with the utmost delicacy of grada-tion in texture have been produced with the greatest. Fig. 142.—Chantilly black lace with the grounds interchanged (thefond chant and the imitation Alencon ground). success at Bayeux, and defy all comparison with theearlier Chantilly laces. This specialty in gradation oftexture pertains to modern black lace, and is unknownin old laces of a cognate class (fig. 143). The towns of Grammont and Enghien in Belgium alsoproduce black laces, which may be distinguished fromFrench work by being less elaborated in changefulnuances or gradations : the threads to indicate veiningsof leaves have no delicate open work about them likethat to be seen in the French black lace. FROM LOUIS XV. TO THE PRESENT TIME. 301
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