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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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CusHiox 3IADE AT THE ScHOOL.—These coloured silk laces are reproductionsof the sixteenth centuiy. Size, 20 x 12 in. Plate XIX.
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Italy.—Group of workers of the Brazza School, Torreano di Martignacco, Friuli, sho^Ying■the different kinds of lace work done and pillows in use. Photos by Contessa di Brazza. To face licige 70. NAPLES 71 Of this lace we find but scanty mention. In the tailorsbill of Sir Timothy Hutton, 1615, when a scholar at Cam-bridge, a charge is made for four oz. and a half quarter anddram of Naples lace. And in the accounts of laces furnishedfor the marriage of the Princess Elizabeth to the Elector Pala-tine, 1612, is noted narrow black Naples lace, purled onboth sides. The principal fabric of lace was in the Island of Ischia.Vecellio, in 1590, mentions the ladies sleeves being trimmedwith very fine thread lace.^® Ischia lace may still be metwith, and serves for trimming toilets, table-covers, curtains,etc., consisting generally of a square netting ground, withthe pattern embroidered. Black silk lace also used to bemade in Ischia. Much torchon lace, of well-designed patterns, was alsomade,

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