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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
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has never been practised as a means oflivelihood throughout Denmark. It is only in the provinceof North Schleswig (or South Jutland, as it is also called)that a regular manufacture was established. It is here thatKing Christian lY. appears to have made his purchases; andwhile travelling in Schleswig, entries constantly occur inhis journal book, from 1619 to 1625, such as, Paid to afemale lace-worker 28 rixdollars—71 specie to a lace-sellerfor lace for the use of the children, and many similar On her marriage, 1515. DENMARK 273 notices.^ It was one of those pieces of Tonder lace thatKing Christian sends to his Chamberlain, with an autographletter, ordering him to cut out of it four collars of the samesize and manner as Prince Ulriks Spanish. They mustcontrive also to get two pairs of manchettes out of the same.In the museum of the palace at Rosenborg are stillpreserved some shirts of Christian IV., trimmed wdthSchleswig lace of great beauty (Fig. 115), and in his portrait, FiR. 115.
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Shirt Collar op Christian IV.—(Castle of Rosenborg, Copenhagen.) which hangs in Hampton Court Palace, the lace on his shirtis of similar texture. It was in the early part of this monarchs reign that thecelebrated Golden Horn, so Ion2; the chief treasure of theScandinavian Museum at Copenhagen, was found by a young ^ • 1619. Sept. 11. Paid for a lace,63 rixd. 11 skillings. 1620. Oct. 11. Paid to a femalelace-worker, 28 rixd. Nov. 4. Paid 10 rixd. to a femalelace-worker who received her dismissal. Nov. 11. Paid 71 specie dollars toa lace-seller for lace for the use of thechildren. Paid 33 specie dollars and 18 skill.Lubec money, to the same man forlace and cambric. 1625. May 19. Paid 21 rixd. forlace. Dec. 20. Paid 25 specie dollars15 skill. Lnbec money, for taffetas andlace. 3 1639. 274 HISTORY OF LACE lace-maker on her way to her work. She carried her prizeto the king, and with the money he liberally bestowed uponher she was enabled, says tradition, to marry the object ofher choic

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