Cap crown, 1720–40, French, Linen, needle lace, Overall (confirmed): 8 7/16 × 10 1/16 in. (21.4 × 25.6 cm), Textiles-Laces, Laces produced in Alençon and Argentan, where the French lacemaking industry was established in the seventeenth century, evolved in tandem with changing fashions. For a brief period in the first half of the eighteenth century, these laces, called Argentella, were produced with a background, or mesh, of solid hexagons enclosed within hexagonal outlines
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Cap crown, 1720–40, French, Linen, needle lace, Overall, confirmed, 8 7/16, 10 1/16, 21.4, 25.6 cm, Textiles-Laces, Laces produced, Alenç, Argentan, French lacemaking, industry, established, seventeenth century, evolved, tandem, changing fashions, brief period, first half, eighteenth, laces, Argentella, produced, background, mesh, solid hexagons, enclosed, within, hexagonal, outlines
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