L&L p.69-75
soldiers in the 18th century wore lace ruffels (and silk stockings) in battle
Steinkirk, a twisted lace cravat, was named after a battle in 1692 when the young french princes were suddently called to battle, fought, and won while wearing their lace cravats, which had gotten rather mussed during the fighting-people then wore mussed cravats for a long time
about 1540 the ruff came into fashion, supposedly invented to hide a scar on the throat of the king of france Henri II first ruffs were just folded linen with a simple lace trimming, but by 1579 they were very big and heavily decorated with fancy lace also stiffened in women´s fashion a wire mounted collar followed the ruff, it was really big (came up behind head), and bordered in lace- started by Marie de Medicis
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Binche lace edit
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http://www.art-estherbrassac.com/anglais/tech_a/lace4.html
- started in 18th century
- from Belgian town Binche
- continous
- same family as valenciennes
- extremely fine
- flowered from 1700 to 1765
- designs include animal scenes and figures
- very difficult
- stopped being made at end of 18th, early 19th
- known as fairy point lace
- aka fairy point lace
- already known in late Louis XIV
- gossamer-fine
- straight edge
- continuous thread
- occasionally has a fine gimp
- still made under the name of 'point do Fée'
http://belovedlinens.net/lace/BincheLace.html
- it is said: brought to Binche in the 15th century from Gent with Mary of Burgundy-no proof
- nothing known of it before end of the 17th century
- originally resembled Valenciennes kn texture and reseau
- no cordonnet or a single fine thread
- very, very fine
- popular in Parisian circles during middle of 18th century
- later laces became coarser and deterioration in the patterns
- production of true dentelle de Binche end at the end of the 18th century
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Dict old world lace L&L (get info for torchon lace too) check P&P
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- Binche is a flemish continuous lace, 17th to early 19th, like V, Antwerp and Mechlin
Deboeck, Guido (2007). Flemish DNA & Ancestry: History of Three Families Over. Dokus Publishing. p. 69. ISBN 978-0972552677. Retrieved 2008-05-24.
- continuous bobbin lace
- usually 2 in wide
- ground normally knwon as snowflake stitch
- 1585:Dutch closed river Scheldt->halted production of Antwerp lace, didn't bother production of Binche
Hist of lace pp.121-122
- Binche was the subject of a royal edict in 1686->laces made there must have been important
- much in vouge in 18th century
- mentioned in Les misérables->used for Collette's wedding dress