Bayeux lace skirt

Introduced in Bayeux in the seventeenth century by episcopal will, the activity of bobbin lace reaches its peak in the mid-nineteenth century. The city rises to the forefront of fashion designers. Among the recent acquisitions, a shawl Chantilly lace skirt from Bayeux black shaded, made around 1870, occupies a prominent place in the lace salon of the museum. The richness of the floral motifs, the quality of the realization and the use of the black shades in the lace, testify to the excellence of the Bayeux production, whose manufacture Lefébure was one of the jewels.