. History of lace . as of boldpattern with the grande bride ground, evidently a mansruffle ; the other had the barette or bride ground of pointde France ; the third picotee, showing that the three descrip-tions of lace were made contemporaneously at Argentan. The author of a little pamphlet on Argentan, * de Lonlay, remembers having seen in his youthin the Holy week, in the churches of St. Martin and St,Germain, the statues of the apostles covered from head tofoot with this priceless point. Aro;entan is now much made at Burano. Plate one of their fine reproductions. ^^
. History of lace . as of boldpattern with the grande bride ground, evidently a mansruffle ; the other had the barette or bride ground of pointde France ; the third picotee, showing that the three descrip-tions of lace were made contemporaneously at Argentan. The author of a little pamphlet on Argentan, * de Lonlay, remembers having seen in his youthin the Holy week, in the churches of St. Martin and St,Germain, the statues of the apostles covered from head tofoot with this priceless point. Aro;entan is now much made at Burano. Plate one of their fine reproductions. ^^ These details on the manufacture ^ Embroidery has replaced this of Argentan have been furnished from industrj- among the workers of the the archives of Alencon through the town and the hand-spinning of hemp kindness of M. Leon de la Sicotiere, among those of the countrj-. the learned archaeologist of the Depart- ^* Leg end e du point dArgentan, ment of the Orne (Mrs. Palliser, 1869). M. Eugene de Lonlay. Plate French. Point dArgentan.—Eighteenth century. Period Louis XV. Needle-point borders. Both these have the hexagonal ground of the genre Argentan. The upper one is chiefly filled in with the oeil de perdrix or reseau rosac6. Width, 3f in. The lower one has been pieced together. Width, 7 in. Victoria and Albert Museum. To face parje 208. 209 CHAPTER XV. ISLE DE FRANCE.—PARIS (DAp. Seine). Quelle henre est-il ?Passe midi.; Qui vous Ia dit? Une petite fait-elle?De la qui ?La reine de Paris.—Old Nursery Song. Early in the seventeenth century, lace was extensivelymade in the environs of Paris, at Louvres, Gisors, Villiers-le-Bel, Montmorency, and other localities. Of this we haveconfirmation in a work^ published 1634, in which, aftercommenting upon the sums of money spent in Flanders for ouvrages etpassemens, tant de point couppe que dautres,which the king had put a stop to by the sumptuary law of1633, the author says : — Pour empescher ice
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