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  2. Alençon lace - Wikipedia

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    The manufacture of Alençon lace had greatly declined even before the Revolution, and was almost extinct when the patronage of Napoleon restored its prosperity. On his marriage with the Empress Marie Louise, among other orders executed for him was a bed furniture—tester, curtains, coverlet, and pillow-cases, of great beauty and richness.

  3. List of Intangible Cultural Heritage elements in France

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    Alençon lace or point d'Alençon is a needle lace that originated in Alençon. It is sometimes called the "Queen of lace." Lace making began during the 16th century and the local industry was rapidly expanded during the reign of Louis XIV by Jean-Baptiste Colbert, who established a Royal Workshop in the town to produce lace in the Venetian ...

  4. Alençon - Wikipedia

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    A long-standing local fabric industry gave birth to the town's famous point d'Alençon lace in the 18th century. The economic development of the nineteenth century was based on iron foundries and mills in the surrounding region. In the first half of the twentieth century the city developed a flourishing printing industry. Alençon was home to Sts.

  5. Lace - Wikipedia

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    Examples of French lace are Alençon, Argentan, and Chantilly. [3]: 17 The 17th century court of King Louis the XIV of France was known for its extravagance, and during his reign lace, particularly the delicate Alençon and Argentan varieties, was extremely popular as court dress.

  6. Marthe La Perrière - Wikipedia

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    She fine-tuned her craftsmanship, and around 1660, invented "point de France" that later became "point d'Alençon." [1] This technique involved using vellum to create the pattern. [4] In addition to the technique of lace-making, La Perrière also improved the production of lace-making through dividing tasks to different workers, using division ...

  7. Musée des Beaux-arts et de la Dentelle d'Alençon - Wikipedia

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    Musée des Beaux-arts et de la Dentelle d'Alençon (In English: Museum of Fine Arts and Lace of Alençon) is an art museum located in Alençon, France. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The museum has been open since 1981.

  8. Louis Martin and Marie-Azélie Guérin - Wikipedia

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    She then prayed for God to give her many children and that they would be consecrated to God. She later decided to become a lacemaker, manufacturing Alençon lace. [5] She fell in love with the watchmaker Louis Martin in 1858 and married him, only three months later, on 13 July 1858, at the Basilica of Notre-Dame in Alençon. [5]

  9. Wedding dress of Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia

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    The train was 4 metres (13 ft) long and surmounted by a lace flounce one meter in width made in Silesia, in which a sprig of myrtle was fixed. The bridal veil was about 3 metres (9.8 ft) square, made of point d' Alençon lace, the design representing orange blossoms, roses, and myrtle-leaves intertwined. [1]

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