!96 HISTORY OF LACE. superior to all in Calvados. It is tlie first manufactory for large pieces of black lace (Fig. 9d), of' extra fine quality and rich design; and as point d Alenpon (see p. 172) lace lias also been introduced into the city, Ilayeux excels equally at the pillow and the needle. Fi-r. 93. Black laco of Bayeux. Messrs. Lefebure have also most successfully reproduced the Venetian point in high relief; the raised flowers are executed with great beauty, the picots rendered with the greatest precision (Coloured Plate XI.). The discovery of the way in which this