Lace, its origin and history . Real Imitation Valenciennes. 37 - Lace: Its Origin and History. Havre wore formerly the two great lace centers of Normandy, manu-facturing in those cities having- antedated that at Alencon, but the pros-perity oi the lace industry in both these cities was nearly destroyed atthe Revolution, and though for a time encouraged under the restoredBourbons, and patronized by Napoleon III, machine-made laces havepractically driven the old Dieppe point out of the market. Dresden Point.—A fine drawn lace, embroidered with the needleand made in Dresden (hiring the
Lace, its origin and history . Real Imitation Valenciennes. 37 - Lace: Its Origin and History. Havre wore formerly the two great lace centers of Normandy, manu-facturing in those cities having- antedated that at Alencon, but the pros-perity oi the lace industry in both these cities was nearly destroyed atthe Revolution, and though for a time encouraged under the restoredBourbons, and patronized by Napoleon III, machine-made laces havepractically driven the old Dieppe point out of the market. Dresden Point.—A fine drawn lace, embroidered with the needleand made in Dresden (hiring the latter part of the seventeenth and thewhole of the eighteenth century. It was an imitation of an Italian pointlace, in which a piece of linen was converted into lace by some of itsthreads being drawn away, some retained to form a pattern, and othersworked together to form square meshes. The manufacture of Dresdenpoint declined, and now laces of many kinds are made there, notably animitation of old Brussels. Duchesse.—A fine pillow lace,
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