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Title: History of lace
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Palliser, Bury, Mrs., 1805-1878 Jourdain, Margaret Dryden, Alice
Subjects: Lace and lace making
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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Italian.—Modern reproduction at Burano of Point de Yenise a la feuille et la rose, of seventeenth century. Width, 8 in. Photo by the Burano School. Plate VII.
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Heraldic (carnival lace), was made in Italy. This appears to be a specimen, though the archaicpattern points to a German origin. The reseau is twisted and knotted. Circ. 1700. The Arms are those of a Bishop. Photo by A. Dryden from private collection. Tu face ■page 32. LACE 2,^ round their upper ends a deep groove, so formed as toreduce the bobbin to a thin neck, on which the thread iswound, a separate bobbin being used for each thread. Bythe twisting and crossing of these threads the ground ofthe lace is formed. The pattern or figure, technically called gimp, is made by interweaving a thread much thickerthan that forming: the groundwork, according; to the desigjnpricked out on the parchment.^^ Such has been the pillowand the method of using it, with but slight variation, iormore than three centuries. To avoid repetition, we propose giving a separate historyof the manufacture in each country ; but in order to furnishsome general notion of the relative ages of lace, it m.ay be aswell

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