This flounce with bunches of grapes and vine leaves exhibited at the Musée des Beaux-Arts et de la Dentelle (Museum of Fine Arts and Lace) in Alençon is a piece made by the Lefébure house at the end of the 19th century. The Lefébure house was then one of the great lace houses of Bayeux in the Calvados department. Created in 1829 when Augustin-René Lefébure bought the factory of Mrs. Carpentier, the official lacemaker of Queen Marie-Antoinette and her daughter, it is famous for having produced a matte blond lace as well as a black lace capable of competing with the productions of Alençon. The Lefébure house, which has always favored the manufacture of luxury bobbin or needle lace for wealthy customers rather than mechanization, closed its last factory-school in 1973.