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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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atterd heaps is laid ;Here the gilt china vase bestrews the floor,While chidden Betty weeps without the door. — Eclogue on the death of Shock, a pet lapdog.*^ Ladies Magazine. 1750. His olive-tannd complexion gracesWith little dabs of Dresden laces;While for the body Mounseer PuffWould think een dowlas fine enough. —French Barber. 1756. The honour of introducing pillow lace into Germany isaccorded l)y tradition to Barbara Uttinan. She was bornin 1514, in the small town of Etterlein, which derives itaname from her family. Her parents, burghers of Nurem-burg, had removed to the Saxon Hartz Mountains, for thepurpose of working some mines. Barbara Etterlein heremarried a rich master miner named Christopher Uttmann,of Annaberg. It is said that she learned lace-making froma native of Brabant, a Protestant, whom the crueltiesof the Spaniards had driven from her country. Barbarahad observed the mountain girls occupied in making a ^^ Six WeeTiS in the Court and Country of France. 1691. t£
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To face page 260. SAXONY 261 network for the miners to wear over their liair : slie tookgreat interest in the work, and, profiting by the experiencederived from her Brabant teacher, succeeded in making herpupils produce first a fine knotted tricot, afterwards a kindof plain lace ground. In 1561, having procured aid fromFlanders, she set up, in her own name of Barbara Uttmann,a workshop at Annaberg, and there began to make laces ofvarious patterns. This branch of industry soon spread Iromthe Bavarian frontier to Altenberg and Geissing, giving

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