. History of lace . ilECHLiN.—Four specimens of seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Arranged bv age, the oldest at the top. The upper one is the end of a lappet, the property of Mr. Arthur Blackborne. Width about 3^ in. Widths of smaller pieces, If in., lower[,2| in. Photos by A. Dryden. To face page 126, MECHLIN 127 in England. All the town, writes Mr. Calderwood, • isfull of convents ; Mechlin lace is all made there ; I saw agreat deal, and very pretty and cheap. They talk of givingup the trade, as the English, upon whom they depended,have taken to the wearing of French blondes. The laceme
. History of lace . ilECHLiN.—Four specimens of seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Arranged bv age, the oldest at the top. The upper one is the end of a lappet, the property of Mr. Arthur Blackborne. Width about 3^ in. Widths of smaller pieces, If in., lower[,2| in. Photos by A. Dryden. To face page 126, MECHLIN 127 in England. All the town, writes Mr. Calderwood, • isfull of convents ; Mechlin lace is all made there ; I saw agreat deal, and very pretty and cheap. They talk of givingup the trade, as the English, upon whom they depended,have taken to the wearing of French blondes. The lacemerchants employ the workers and all the town with they gain 1jut twopence halfpenny daily, it is a goodworker who will finish a Flemish yard (28 inches) in afortnight. Mechlin is essentially a summer lace, not becoming in Fig. —(Period Louis XVI.)] itself, but charmino; when worn over colour. It foundgreat favour at the court of the Regent, as the inventoriesof the period attest. Much of this lace, judging fromthese accounts, was made in the style of the modern insertion,with an edging on both sides, campane, and, being lightin texture, was well adapted for the gathered trimmings,later termed^ quilles, now better known as plisses a la *^ On chamarre les jupes eu Un volant deutellc dAugleterre quiles de dentelles plissees.— plissee.—Extraordinaire GaJnnt. 1678. Quarticr dEsU. 1678. 128 HISTORY OF LACE vieille. ^ Mechlin can never have been used as a dentelle<le grande toilette ; it served for coiffures de nuit, garnituresde corset, ruffles and r-ravats.^^ Lady Mary Wortle}- Montagu, describing an admirer,^vrites : ,^„ , . With eager beat his Mechlin cravat moves—He loves, I whisper to myself, he loves ! It was the favourite lace of Queen Charlotte (Fig. iVl)and of the
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