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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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Unfinished Work of a Spanish Nun. and years of time were wasted with so unsatisfactory aresult. I ask myself, after the fancy has passed away, willthe lady or gentleman find that the chemises that cost themfifty ducats, or the basquina (petticoats) that cost them threehundred, are worth half their price ? The most important of Spanish ordinances ^° relating toSpanish art and industry are those which appeared in the ^ Baa-celona, 1892, page 225, quotedby Signor J. F. Eiano. Date of book1592. ^^ A. S. Cole, Ancient Needle-iwiritand Pillow-Lace. 96 HI ST OR Y OF LA CE fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in Tolecla and Seville, bothremarkable centres for all kinds of artistic productions. Inneither of these, nor in the sixteenth and seventeenth century Fig. 46.
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I NFINl.->Hi;i> \\ olUv UK A SjAMMi .\LX. ordinances relatino; to Granada—another art-centre—is thereany mention of lace. In the laws which were passed by Ferdinand and Isabellaat the end of the fifteenth and beginning of the. sixteenthcenturies, no mention is made of lace, though numerous SPAIN 97 details of costumes are named. It will be seen from theseremarks on Spanish lace that we give to Italy the credit ofproducing the artistic and valuable point lace, which un-expectedly came out of Spain after the dissolution of themonasteries. The ordinance of Philip III, against the wearing of lace,dated 1623, which enjoined simples rabats, sans aucuneinvention de point couppe ou passement for the men, withfraises and manchettes in like trim for the ladies, both toowithout starch, and which extended to gold and silver lace,w^as suspended during the matrimonial visit of PrinceCharles; ^^ indeed, the Queen of Spain herself sent him, onhis arrival at Madrid, ten trunks of richly-lace

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