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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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oderate price. ^ So opulent arethe citizens, says a writer of the same epoch, that the lowestmechanics, blacksmiths and shoemakers, appear in gold stuffcoats with ruffles of the finest point.^^ And when, in 1767, the Auvergne lace-makers petitionfor an exemption from the export duty on their fabrics, theystate as a ground that the duty prevents them from com-peting abroad, especially at Cadiz, with the lace-makers ofPiedmont, the Milanais, and Imperial Flanders. Milan must,therefore, have made lace extensively to a late period. *^ Harl. MS. No. 1419. ^ Grand Dictionnaire Universel du Roll. P. R. O. Commerce. 1723. ^ P. R. O. ^^ Voyage en Italie. 1765. ^ De la Mare, Traite de la Police. ^ Peuehet, J., Dictionnaire Univer- ^ Statuts, Ordonnances et Regie- sel de la Geographic Comm,er^ante. mens de la Comniimaute des Maistres Paris, An vii. = 1799. Passementiers, etc., de Paris, confirmez ^ Letters from Italy, by a lady, sur les anciens Statuts du 23 mars 1770.1558. Paris, 1719. Plate XV
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