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Title: History of lace
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Palliser, Bury, Mrs., 1805-1878 Dryden, Alice Jourdain, Margaret
Subjects: Lace and lace making -- History
Publisher: London : Sampson Low, Marston
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Wellesley College Library

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cis Dobson, Millenario Regali—theRoyal Milliner, as he styles himself. George I. indulges ina Macklin cravat. It is impossible, says Savary about this time, toimagine how much Mechlin lace is annually purchased byFrance and Holland, and in England it has alwavs held thehio-hest favour. ()f the beau of 1727 it is said : Right Macklin must twist round his bosom and wiiwts. AVhile Captain Figgins of the 67th, a dandy of the firstwater, is described, like the naval puppy of Smollett inRoderick Random, his hair powdered with marechal, acambric shirt, his Malines lace dyed with coffee-grounds.Towards 1755 the fashion seems to have been on the decline ** In the accounts of Madame du de manchettes garnyes de passement Barry, we have Malines batarde d tant deVenise,Gennes,etde Malines. bordure. *^ Voyage en Flandrc. 1681. * Inv. apres le deces de Mgr. Ic *^ B. M. Add. MSS. No. 5751. Marechal de la Motte. Bib. Nat. Gr. Ward. Ace. V. R. O. MSS. V. Fr. 11,426. Quatre paires * Ibid. Plate XXXIX.
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ilECHLiN.—Four specimens of seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Arranged bv age, the oldest at the top. The upper one is the end of a lappet, the property of Mr. Arthur Blackborne. Width about 3^ in. Widths of smaller pieces, If in., lower(,2; in. Photos by A. Dryden. To face page 126, MECHLIN 127 in England. All the town, writes Mr. Calderwood, • isfull of convents ; Mechlin lace is all made there ; I saw agreat deal, and very pretty and cheap. They talk of givingup the trade, as the English, upon whom they depended,have taken to the wearing of French blondes. The lacemerchants employ the workers and all the town with lace.Though they gain 1jut twopence halfpenny daily, it is a goodworker who will finish a Flemish yard (28 inches) in afortnight. Mechlin is essentially a summer lace, not becoming in Fig. 61.

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