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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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k. At Vologda a laceresembling torchon is made, with colours introduced, red,blue, and ecru and white.^ In some laces silks of variouscolours are employed. Pillow-lace has only been knownin Russia for over a hundred years, and although the 2^ The Eussian bobbins are interest- fancj- or artistic taste, they are purely ing by reason of their archaic sini- utiUtarian, mere sticks of wood, more plicitj. Lacking any trace of decora- or less straight and smooth, and six or tion, whether suggested by sentimental seven inches long. 284 HISTORY OF LACE lace produced is effective, it is coarse in texture and crudein pattern. Late in the nineteenth century the Czarinagave her patronage to a school founded at Moscow, whereVenetian needle-point laces have been copied, using thefinest English thread, and needle-laces made after oldEussian desio;ns of the sixteenth centurv,^ called Point deMoscou. ^* A depot has been opened in London, wlieie liussian laces and embroideryof all kinds are sho\An. tc s
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To face page 284. 285 CHAPTER XXII. ENGLAND TO QUEEN ELIZABETH. • We weare most fantastical fashions than any nation nncler the sun doth,the French only excepted.—Coryafs Crudities. 1611. It would be a difficult matter for antiquaries to decide atwhat precise time lace, as we now define the word, firstappears as an article of commerce in the annals of ourcountry. As early as the reign of Edward III.,^ the excessiveluxury of veils, worn even by servant girls, excited theindignation of the Government, who, in an Act, dated 1363,forbade them to be worn of silk, or of any other material,^ mes soulement de fil fait deinz le Roialme, for which veilsno one was to pay more than the sum of tenpence. Of whatstuff these thread veils wxre composed we have no record ;probably they were a sort of network, similar to the caul ofQueen Philippa, as we see represented on her tomb. Thata sort of crochet decoration used for edging was alreadymade, we may infer from the monumental effigies of theday.^

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