Alençon and Argentan Lace: Part I
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First part of an article on the history of Alençon and Argentan needle lace in France. It surveys the French court's extravagant use of lace under the Valois and Louis XIII and XIV, the sumptuary edicts against it, and Colbert's founding of the Point de France industry at Alençon with Venetian workers in the 1660s. It covers the royal privilege of 1665 and local resistance from the lace workers. Illustrated with a portrait of Colbert and photographs of eighteenth-century Point d'Alençon and Point d'Argentan lace.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1903
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 4
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