Bayeux lace was

bobbin lace Bobbin lace is a lace textile made by braiding and twisting lengths of thread, which are wound on bobbins to manage them. As the work progresses, the weaving is held in place with pins set in a lace pillow, the placement of the pins usually de ...

that was made at

Bayeux Bayeux () is a Communes of France, commune in the Calvados (department), Calvados Departments of France, department in Normandy (administrative region), Normandy in northwestern France. Bayeux is the home of the Bayeux Tapestry, which depicts ...

in Normandy, France. Caen was one of the major centres of the Bayeux lacemaking area. Three types of lace were produced there from the early 19th century under the management of Auguste Lefebure: * the original ''blonde de Caen'', with its sprinkling of point d'esprit in the cobwebby ground, and the suggestion of curved petals of shiny white silk along the border * ''blonde mate'' (as in matt, a smooth close texture) in the Spanish style, made from 1829 * the ''grillé blanc'' (French meaning a mesh or grill, half stitch), a form of white

Chantilly lace Chantilly lace is a handmade bobbin lace named after the city of Chantilly,"Chantilly" ''The Oxford English Dictionary''. 2nd ed. 1989. France, in a tradition dating from the 17th century. The famous silk laces were introduced in the 18th cent ...

, fashionable 1800-1820, with a fond simple ground, with floral sprays worked in half stitch, using silk or flax. From 1850s, mainly black lace was produced.

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