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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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scarcelychanged since the sixteenth century, may be found in theWeaiincj Book pul)lished at Stockholm in 1828. Towards the end of 1500 the term passement appearsin general use, in an inventory of Pontus de Gardia. In the neighbourhood of Wadstena old soldiers, as wellas women, may be seen of a summers evening sitting at thecottage doors making lace. Though no other lace manu-factory can l)e said to exist in Sweden beyond that ofWadstena, still a coarse bobbin lace is made by the peasantr\for home consumption. The author has received from theCountess Elizabeth Piper, late Grande Maitresse to herMajesty the Queen of Sweden, specimens of coarse pillowlaces, worked by the Scanian peasant women, which, shewrites, form a f^ivourite occupation for the women of ourprovince. •In the Victoria anrl Albert Museum Leipzig, 1746. Handhoh for unga there is a collection of Norwegian cut- Frunfimmcr, by Ekenniark. Stock- Avork of the eighteenth century. holm, 1826-2S. Weber. Bilhrrhuch. Plate LXXIV.
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Russian.—Part of a long border setting forth a Procession. Lacis and embroidery in silk. The lace is bobbin-made in thread. Reseau similar to Valenciennes. The Russian thread is good quality linen. Size of portion shown 18^ x 14 in. The property of Madame Pogosky. Photo by A. Dryden. To face page 280. SWEDEN 281 Latterly this manufacture has been protected and theworkwomen carefully directed. Far more curious are the laces made by the peasants ofDalecarlia, still retaining the patterns used in the rest ofEurope two hundred years since. The broader ^^ kinds, ofwhich we give a woodcut (Fig. 117)^ are from Gaguef, thatpart of Dalecarlia where laces are mostly made and used.Married women wear them on their summer caps, muchstarched, as a shelter against the sun. Others, of an Fig. 117.

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