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Identifier: stnicholasserial31dodg (find matches)
Title: St. Nicholas (serial)
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905
Subjects: Children's literature
Publisher: (New York : Scribner & Co.)
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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ither dark green nor black dresses wereallowed to be worn in the morning. During the early portion of 1400 no woman This was embroidery with part of the stuff cutaway so as to show open-work. Then came drawn-work, in which threadswere pulled from some coarse material, and adesign or pattern was worked among the re-maining threads with a needle and silk or flax. Next appeared what we call lace, either workedwith a needle in shape of points, or made of goldor silver threads twisted together. Of coursethis latter lace was very costly, and it was onaccount of the many laws passed against gold Copyright, 1904, by The Century Co. All rights reserved. 292 THE BABY S CAP. and silver lace that the attention of artisanswas turned to making similar trimming, butwith threads of flax. As early as 1414 much gold lace was made in called Gothic point because the patternsused were like those which prevailed in Gothicarchitecture,— were geometric in design. The portrait of the baby with the parrot on
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CHILD WITH PARROT. FROM A PORTRAIT BY MIEREVELT. Photograph by Franz Hanfstangel. many of the larger cities of Italy; among thoseleading in this work were Florence, Milan,Venice, and Genoa. The earliest laces, called point becauseshaped in points,— sometimes they were also its hand was painted, over three hundred yearsago, by a very famous Dutch artist namedMierevelt. Nobody knows now whose baby itwas, but I am sure its mother loved it verydearly, and I think perhaps her fingers em-

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