The Museum of the Lace and the Patrimony of Chantilly (Oise)

The Lace of Chantilly is made in reels with a white silk (rarely) or black called Alais's grenadine.
Having copied the laces of Lille and Arras as well as the point of Paris, Chantilly became in the XVIII ème century one of the important centres of the Island of France in the manufacture of the black laces. Motives remind those some ceramic produced at the same time in this city (baskets, muds, flowery, pink...). They are encircled with a silk button-hole thread and applied to a bottom "song" (abbreviation of Chantilly) similar to the network of the point of Paris. The national stitch, way Alençon, will be the most adopted then, to become the most spread in all the black laces. One finds however the point of Paris in the openwork of flowers and ornaments. Under the second Empire, the black lace knew a considerable success, with the fashion of shawls, parasols, ranges.

The bottom "Tulle" meets itself in Chantilly done in Caen and in Bayeux, as well as in Grammont and in Enghien in Belgium. The most known are made silk black and silk natural. It is Eugénie de Montijo who threw the fashion of the black lace.
It appears towards 1740, but one does not make it any more in Chantilly but in Bayeux.
The details of Chantilly are very big details that is why the lace is done by means of sewn strips from 8 to 10 cms in width they enter the point of raccroc.
The creator of numerous models was called M Lefebure to Bayeux.

Here is the quite small outline of it that you can see to the museum:

It is not a whipped cream, but the embroidery are so remarkable, that it was pity not to take the photo! (Lent for an exhibition)	Parasol in Chantilly (mechanics)

As this manequins proves it, Chantilly is enormously used on the clothing domain.
You will also discover numerous drawings and Chantilly lace projects black and Blonde of M Landry Pierre, draftsman and manufacturer of Fair laces in the middle of the XIX ème century.

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