, “I will not be silent, and fail to mention the time lost these last years in the manufacture of cadenetas, a work of thread combined with gold and silver; this extravagance and excess reached such a point that hundreds and thousands of ducats were spent in this work, in which, besides destroying… … and years of time were wasted with so unsatisfactory a result. [ask myself, after the fancy has passed away, will the lady or gentleman find that the chemises that cost them fifty ducats, or the basqguina (petticoats) that cost them three hundred, are worth half their price ? ” “The most important…
Lace and lace making -- History
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