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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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rtment, executes it with greaterfacility, and consequently earns more, and the school getsits work done better and cheaper. While Countess Marcello was working^ to re-esta)>lish themaking of needle-point at Burano, Cav. Michelangelo Jesurumwas re-organising the bobbin-lace industry at Pellestrina, asmall fishincr-town on the Lido. In 1864 the lace of Pelles-trina might have been described as an inextricable labvrinthof threads with vaguely distinguishable lines and occasionalholes. The lace was so imperfect, and made in such smallquantities, that two women who went about selling it inVenice and the country round sufficed to dispose of all thatwas made. The pricked papers were prepared by an oldpeasant woman, who made them more and more imperfectat each repetition, losing gradually all trace of the originaldesign. Cav. Jesurum, by a careful copying of the olddesigns, obtained valuable results, and founded a lace-schooland a flourishing industry. About 1875 polychrome lace Plate XIV.
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Italian.—Modern reproduction at Burano of the flounce now belonging to the Crown ofItaly, formerly to Pope Clement XIII., Rezzonico, 1693-1769. Height, 24 in. Photo bv the Burano School. To faci page G2. MILAN 63 was introduced in Venice—bobbin-lace worked in colourswith designs of Howers, fruits, leaves, arabesques, andanimals, with the various tints and shading required. Thewomen who make bobbin-lace now in Venice and in theislands amount to 3,000, but it is difficult to give an exactestimate of their numbers, as many of them are bone-workers,wives and daughters of fishermen, who combine the lace-making with their household duties, with mending of nets,and with field-work. MILAN (MiLANO LA Grande). Margaret: I saw the Duchess of Milans gown that they praise so. Hero : O that exceeds, they say. Margaret: By my troth, its but a night-gown in respect of j^ours ; clotho gold and cuts, and laced with silver.—Much Ado about Nothing, iv. 1. One of the earliest records of Italian lace

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