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Lace and lace making

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Weaving
Textile Industry
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Images about Lace and lace making

20 images from works
  • Textiles: lace making, threads stretched across a frame. Engraving by R. Benard after Lucotte.
  • Textiles: lace making, details of equipment. Engraving by R. Benard after Lucotte.
  • A woman sitting on a chair making lace on a lace-pillow. Engraving by Thomas Sherratt after A.J. Woolmer.
  • Textiles: lace making, men weaving (top), and the loom (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Lucotte.
  • Textiles: lace making, details of equipment. Engraving by R. Benard after Lucotte.
  • Textiles: lace making, winding threads. Engraving by R. Benard after Lucotte.
  • Textiles: lace making, a weaver on a swing at the work (above), detail of lace (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Lucotte.
  • Textiles: lace making, a loom (top), and the pattern (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Lucotte.
  • Textiles: lace making, a weaver at a loom. Engraving by R. Benard after Lucotte.
  • Textiles: lace making, fabricating horse-hair brushes (top), and details (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Lucotte.

Works from the collections

22 works

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    Textiles: lace making, men weaving (top), and the loom (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Lucotte.

    Lucotte, Jacques-Raymond, approximately 1733-1804. | Reference: 43979i
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    Textiles: lace making, details of equipment. Engraving by R. Benard after Lucotte.

    Lucotte, Jacques-Raymond, approximately 1733-1804. | Reference: 43969i
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    Textiles: ribbon making, heating the ribbons on drums (top), details of equipment (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Lucotte.

    Lucotte, Jacques-Raymond, approximately 1733-1804. | Reference: 43977i
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    Textiles: lace making, a loom (top), and the pattern (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Lucotte.

    Lucotte, Jacques-Raymond, approximately 1733-1804. | Reference: 43975i
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    Textiles: lace making, men working (top), and the frame (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Lucotte.

    Lucotte, Jacques-Raymond, approximately 1733-1804. | Reference: 43994i

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Textiles
Weaving

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