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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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he altars, caused animmense consumption of lace for ecclesiastical purposes. Ofso great value, says Beckford, were the laces of thesefavoured Madonnas, that in 1787 the Marchioness of Cogal-hudo, w4fe of the eldest son of the semi-royal race of MedinoCoeli, was appointed Mistress of the Robes to our Lady ofLa Solidad, at Madrid, a much-coveted office. Point dEspagne, in the usual sense of the word, signifiesthat gold or silver lace, sometimes embroidered in colours,so largely consumed in France during the earlier years ofIjouis XIY.s reign. Ornaments made of plaited and twisted 1756. Point dE8;pagne hats.—Connoisseur. SPAIN 91 gold aDd silver threads were produced in Spain during theseventeenth century, and mention of them is to be found in theordinances of that time. Towards the end of the century,jN^arciso Felin, author of a w^ork )3ublished in Barcelona,quoted by M. Aubry, writes that, edgings of all sorts ofgold, silver, silk thread and aloe fibres are made at Barcelona Fig. 43.
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The ^YoKK-RooiI.—(From an engraving of the Sixteenth Century after Strailan.) with greater perfection than in Flanders. In the sixteenthcentury, Flanders was part of the Spanish dominions, andfrom Flanders Spain imported artistic goods, linen and laceincluded. Mr. A. S. Cole concludes from this that the Barce-lona lace-making w^as more or less an imitation of that whichhad previously existed in Spanish Flanders. 92 HISTORY OF LACE Apart from this, the gokl and silver lace of Cyprus, Venice,Lucca and Genoa preceded that from Flanders, and it appearsthat Spain was later in the field of artistic lace-making thaneither Italy, Flanders or France. Even the celebrity of thegold point dEspagne is probably due more to the use of goldlace by Spanish grandees, than to the production in Spainof gold lace. The name point dEspagne was, I think,a commercial one, given to gold lace by French makers.^ Dominique de Sera, in his Lkre de Lingerie, publishedin 1584, especially mentions that many of the

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