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Identifier: historyoflac00pall (find matches)
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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lace following- resembles Genoese pillow-lace in the outline of the design with fancy having the same scrolls and flowers gauze stitches made by knotting with formed by a ribbon in close stitch, a crochet needle. The special cha- with a 7nesh or tulle ground, whereas racteristic of this lace is that the braid the Genoese lace is held together by is constant^ thrown over what has bars.—C. di Brazza, Old and Neiv gone before. The design is connected Lace in Italy (1893). by brides. A modification, where the ^2 Lefebure writes, A version of braid is very fine and narrow, and the these Milanese laces has been pro- turnings extremety complicated, and duced by using tape for the scroll enriched by no fancy stitches between^ forms and flowers, and filling in the is Punto a Vermicelli.— Old and New open portions between the tapes by Lace in Italy. ye HISTORY OF LACE of the ladies of the commune.^^ In 1862 Santa Maro^heritahad 2,210 lace-workers : Rapallo, 1,494. The maestri, or Figr. 36.
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^6^W§^ c Lace Pattern found in the Church at Santa Margherita (ciro. 1592). overseers, receive all orders from the trade, and find hands toexecute them. The silk and thread required for the lace is ^ Communicated by Sig. Gio. Tessada, Junr., of Genoa. Plate XX.

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