Wed May 15, 2019 12:40 PM

I hadn’t seen this 1908 book by Edouard Rouveyre before. The majority of the book is a selection of patterns from various of the pattern books, followed by 10 portraits of individuals wearing lace. It is a nice mix of patterns in a compressed format that can be flipped through to see the development of the genre. The editor has ordered the patterns by date, but no attribution to particular books are given.

_La dentelle : transformations progressives, XVIe et XVIIe sie?cles_

https://archive.org/details/ladentelletransf00rouv/page/n1

For some reason the scan at Archive has a biography of Goya attached. Rouveyre is only the first 178 pages.