Fonds de Bonnets du XIXe Siècle: Collection A. Lescure [Cap Backs of the 19th Century: A. Lescure Collection]
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A French plate book reproducing nineteenth-century embroidered cap backs (fonds de bonnets) from the collection of Alfred Lescure, published by H. Ernst in Paris. A short introduction by C. Estrade discusses the history and regional variety of French women's caps and describes these examples as festive white-thread embroidery on linon or batiste, worked on a tambour frame. Fifty-four photographic plates show circular cap backs and elongated oval pieces with floral, leaf and ribbon motifs in whitework, openwork, cutwork and needle-lace fillings.
- Type
- Book
- Date
- c. 1800-1900
- Language
- French
- Pages
- 57
- Archive notes
- Scanned images provided by Tess Parrish
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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