. History of lace . xecute it to order for this purpose. Great as is the Ijeauty of the workmanship of Aleneon,it was never able to compete with Brussels in one respect :its designs were seldom copied from nature, while the fabricof Brabant sent forth roses and honeysuckles of a correctnessworthy of a Dutch painter. leurs dessins pour prendre les fleurs des guirlandes et des fleurettes sont qui sepanouent et sensoulent capri- la base des dessins de cette les unes aux autres. Sous la republique et le premier ^ Le style de Louis XVI. na rien de empire, les dessins deviennent ra
. History of lace . xecute it to order for this purpose. Great as is the Ijeauty of the workmanship of Aleneon,it was never able to compete with Brussels in one respect :its designs were seldom copied from nature, while the fabricof Brabant sent forth roses and honeysuckles of a correctnessworthy of a Dutch painter. leurs dessins pour prendre les fleurs des guirlandes et des fleurettes sont qui sepanouent et sensoulent capri- la base des dessins de cette les unes aux autres. Sous la republique et le premier ^ Le style de Louis XVI. na rien de empire, les dessins deviennent raides Iainpleur ni de Ielegance des styles (Madame Despierres.)precedents. Les formes sont arrondies ; 200 HISTORY OF LACE This defect is now altered. The desiirns of the lace areadmirable copies of natural flowers, intermixed w^ith grassesand ferns, which give a variety to the form of the leaves. Alencon point is now successfully made at Burano nearVenice, in Brussels, at Alen9on itself, and at Bayeux, where o C5 tc. y. o3 Eh Ph Eh O the fabric was introduced, in 1855, by M. iVuguste Lefebure,a manufacturer of that town. Departing from the oldcustom of assigning to each lace-maker a special branchof the work, the lace is here executed throuQ-h all its stagesby the same worker. Perhaps the finest example of pointdAlencon exhibited in 18G7 was the produce of the C5 be
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