Embroidery and lace: their manufacture and history from the remotest antiquity to the present dayA handbook for amateurs, collectors and general readers . d glasses fromSaxony and Bohemia (fig. 139). Under Louis sprays and delicate interlacings which gave oppor-tunities for varieties of fillings (a Jours) were used inthe patterns. Later on, the patterns consisted oforderly scatterings of tiny blossoms, spots, and so forth,which make a pleasing play of effect in contrast with ifP*^W|i*flB ^W- »SM1k!|i% lllflP^ *; •;V&ipi^H ?N f J ^Hfi*ir« ^T^^^^H Ug ff&yS Fig. 138.—Lappet of Mechlin
Embroidery and lace: their manufacture and history from the remotest antiquity to the present dayA handbook for amateurs, collectors and general readers . d glasses fromSaxony and Bohemia (fig. 139). Under Louis sprays and delicate interlacings which gave oppor-tunities for varieties of fillings (a Jours) were used inthe patterns. Later on, the patterns consisted oforderly scatterings of tiny blossoms, spots, and so forth,which make a pleasing play of effect in contrast with ifP*^W|i*flB ^W- »SM1k!|i% lllflP^ *; •;V&ipi^H ?N f J ^Hfi*ir« ^T^^^^H Ug ff&yS Fig. 138.—Lappet of Mechlin lace snowy ground {fond de neige). FROM LOUIS XV. TO THE PRESENT TIME. 297 the regularity of the meshed grounds. No better, lacecan be found to assimilate with, and adorn, light texturessuch as gauze and muslin. It is admirably suited forbarbes and headdresses, and our grandmothers showedcunning appreciation of its appropriateness in bedeck-ing their undulating mounds of white hair. The district between Mechlin, Antwerp, and Louvainhas always been celebrated for its make of Mechlinlace. Lille and Arras laces are somewhat of the same. Fig. 139.—Mechlin lace (eighteenth century). character; the principal difference between them andMechlin being in the less elaborated make of theirgrounds, in which the meshes are made by twisting,not plaiting, threads; the other portions of the lace areof the same make as Mechlin. In the country about Bayeux, laces, having a closeaffinity to Mechlin lace, are manufactured with finethread. Important pieces for fichus, mantillas, or headscarves, coming from this district, have all the supplenessand softness which contribute to the seductive charm ofthis class of lace (fig. 140). Chantilly. — Chantilly, in the seventeenth century, 298 II. LACES. became the rallying point of the lace-makers fromthe Ile-de-France. After producing lace of modestartistic pretension, such as gueuse and the Pointde Paris, which latter was a sort of second-rateMec
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