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Title: Embroidery and lace: their manufacture and history from the remotest antiquity to the present day. A handbook for amateurs, collectors and general readers
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Lefébure, Ernest, b. 1835 Cole, Alan S. (Alan Summerly), 1846-1934
Subjects: Lace and lace making Embroidery
Publisher: London, H. Grevel
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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ineffect than when made with simple mesh grounds-And one of these fillings used as a ground, greatlyfavoured at the beginning of the eighteenth century,has been named by Mrs. Bury-Palliser Argentellaground—a name which has given rise to discussion.* The great success of the Alencon and Argentancentres of the lace industry raised up many competitorswith them. In the first place, Venice, finding that laces of lightertexture were being sought after, that men wore less aswomen wore more of them, introduced refinements in herproductions, and, in lieu of the vigorous scrolls withrich reliefs, such as she had made in the seventeenthcentury, she set herself to make the point de rose (rose- * Alan S. Cole, Les Dentelles Anciennes, translated by C. P. Haus-soullier. (The English edition is Ancient Needlepoint and Pillow Lace.Arundel Society. 1874.) FROM LOUIS XV. TO THE PRESENT TIME. 231 point) and other laces, the patterns in which resemblecoral branches. Rosepoint is a Venetian needlepoint
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Fig. 102.—Venetian needlepoint lace (rosepoint), eighteenthcentury (belonging to Madame G. Dreyfus). lace of delicate scrolls enriched with many little off-shoots, held together by tiny bars or brides a picots, 232 II. LACES. and freely spotted with small blossoms consisting ofwreaths of microscopic loops or picots superposed oneon the other with the daintiest effect (fig. 102), Thislace, infinitely less bold than the great and splendidVenetian guipures, is more elegant and precious look-ing, and reflects eighteenth-century taste for pettinessof detail. According to Zeno of Udine, Joseph II., Emperor ofGermany (1765—1790), ordered on the occasion of hismarriage a set of rosepoint laces at a cost of thirtythousand florins, which from all accounts seem to havebeen of the finest quality ever reached in this style. Attempts were also made at Venice to produceneedlepoint laces with meshed grounds. Burano, oneof the islands in the lagoon, gave its name to a lacewith a ground of meshes;

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