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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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four entirelydistinctive characters. The Hispano-^Ioresque (or Greek)point de Genes frise, the Vermicelli from Rapallo and Santa^largherita, a lace resembling Milanese lace with l)rides,and a fourth kind, entirely different from these varieties,called fugio (I fly), as it is very soft and airy. It is anadaptation of guipure-like ribbons of weaving, with open-work variations, held together by a very few bars. In allthese laces, as in Neapolitan and Milanese lace, a crochetneedle is used to join the bars and design by drawing onethread through a pin-hole in the lace and passing a freebol)bin through the loop to draw the knot tight. Cavasco. Statistique de Genes. tory gives a ^ou/j/xi, two bobbins, 1840. then a ossi, of bone, and, lastlj, • The bobbins appear to have been a piombini; and it is very certain that made in Italy of various materials. We lead was used for bobbins in Italy, have Merletti a fusi,, in which case See Parasole (1600).they are of wood. The Sforza inven- Fig. 35.
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Genoa Point, Bobbin-made. From a collar in the possession of the Author. This is an elaborate specimen of Point de Genes frise—Italian merletti a piombini. The plaits almostinvariably consist of four threads. .iiuoi, To face page li, GENOA 75 The lace manufacture extends along the coast fromAlbissola, on the Western Eiviera, to Santa Margherita onthe eastern. Santa Margherita and Eapallo are called byLuxada^^ the emporium of the lace industry of Genoa,and are still the greatest producers of pillow-lace on thecoast. The workers are mostly the wives and daughters ofthe coral-fishers who support themselves by this occupationduring the long and perilous voyages of their husbands. Inthe archives of the parochial church of Santa Margherita ispreserved a book of accounts, in which mention is made, inthe year 1592, of gifts to the church, old nets from the coralfishery, together ^\\X\ jjisetti (pizzi), the one a votive offeringof some successful fishermen, the other the work of theirwives o

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