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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
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y trine. At Chicago was exhibited the firstkind of net iised in Italy as lace ongarments. It is made of a very linelinen or silk mesh, stiffened with waxand embroidered in silk thread. It A\asin use during the fourteenth century,and part of the fifteenth (Guide to Kciuand Old. Lace in Italy, C. di Brazza,1893). This is probably the gramite,or trimmings of the albs, mentionedin the account book formerly belong-ing to the Cathedral of Ferrara, andnow preserved in the Municipal Ar-chives of that city. ■^ See Milan. ^ Trina, like our word lace, is usedin a general sense for braid or passe-ment. Florio, in Iiis Dictionary (.1Worlde of Words, John Florio, Lon-don, 1598), gives Trine—cuts, snips,pincke worke on garments ; and Trinci—gardings, fringings, lacings, etc., orother ornaments of garments. Merlo, nicrlctto, are the more modernterms for lace. We find tlie first asearly as the poet Firenzuola (seeFlorence). It does not occur in anypattern book of an older date than the Platk XI.
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Italian. Point Plat de Venise. Needle-point.—Seventeenth century. Length, 25 in.; width, 16in. Victoria and Alhert Museum. y«( face fiiKje 40. ITAL V 47 Again, the Florentine poet, Firenzuolu, who wrote from1520-30, composed an elegy upon a collar of raised point,made by the hand of his mistress. Cavaliere Merli cites, as the earliest known painting inwhich lace occurs, a majolica disc, after the style of the iJellaKobbia family, in which, surrounded by a wreath of fruit, isrepresented the half figure of a lady, dressed in a richl)rocade, with a collar of white lace. The costume is of thefifteenth century ; l)ut as Luca della Robrjias descendantsworked to a later period, the precise date of the work cannotbe fixed. Evidences of white lace, or passement, are said to appearin the pictures of Carpaccio, in the gallery at Venice, and inanother by the Gentile Bellini, where the dress of one of theladies is trimmed round the neck with a white lace.* The•date of this last painting is 15

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