Williams, Leonard, b. 1871 · London : T.N. Foulis · leaf 236
stions, sur une liste quil avoit envoyee quelquesjours auparavant. It is impossible to mention Spanish lace with-out recalling that most graceful article of head-wear, the mantilla, the use of which is graduallydying out. At present we understand by thisword a black or white head-covering of lace… … A MAJA(By Goya) TEXTILE FABRICS days, retaining a closer likeness to the velo ormanto with which the Spanish women of theseventeenth century were able, at their pleasure,to completely mask their faces (Plates xxvi. andxxvii.). Indeed, as late as the early part of thenineteenth century the mantilla…
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