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Title: A history of hand-made lace : dealing with the origin of lace, the growth of the great lace centres, the mode of manufacture, the methods of distinguishing and the care of various kinds of lace
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Jackson, Emily, 1861-
Subjects: Lace and lace making
Publisher: London : L. Upcott Gill New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library

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urn in 1615 for the Overbury murder, andthus rendered that especial tint distasteful ; at any rate the fashion disappeared. The French mode of wearing Flanders and Venice points held sway in England,and Lord Bacon wrote, Our English dames are much given to the wearing ofcostly laces, and if brought from Italy, or France, or Flanders, they are in muchesteem. In 1621 there was a movement set on foot to establish an office to represspride by levying taxes on all articles of luxury, and in 1623 a complaint of the decayof the bone lace trade caused distress in Great Marlow. Queen Anne of Denmark was most patriotic in her taste, and purchasedGreat bone lace and Little bone lace at Winchester and Basing; the lace forthe layette of the Princess Sophia cost ^614 5s. 8d. Cut-work was still a favourite in England for the trimming of the fallingcollars which came in when ruffs went out of fashion, and Medicis collars wereworn as at the Court of France. At the death of Queen Anne, wife of James I.
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Seventeenth •century Point de France, showing the Venetian influence. The figure* are characteristic of this period. SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. 33 in 1619, a large veil was used to drape the hearse, with peak lace wired, and lawn Lace used curiously cut in flowers. Though Charles I. is occasionally represented in a ruff during the early yearsof his reign, the fashion practically died with King James I., being superseded by thefall of lace-trimmed linen ; but extravagance was shown even in the less elaborateneck wear, and in 1633 the bills for the Kings lace and linen amounted to ^15,000for the year. As there was little of this money paid for foreign lace, it may beinferred that the making of English laces had become an important industry.Much bone lace and point lace was made in England, besides that of the morecostly gold and silver thread. Henrietta Maria gave lace as a present to her sister-in-law, Anne of Austria,and the Countess of Leicester ordered lace to be sent to her in France,

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