Ricci, Elisa · London, W. Heinemann; Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott company · leaf 52
in 1495 was provided with a certain number of « needles with apple-heads », and other ordinary needles. But Bianca Sforza certainly did not use her pins for making bobbin-lace, nor in those days can the populace have been familiar with them, or able to procure them in the large quantities needed… … No. 23 — Points with figures from < Le Pompe >, Venice, 1557, In 1650, while eulogizing his native-made lace, a Flemish writer mentions pins: « The young girl sits at her work and moves her fingers incessantly, twirl- ing the dancing bobbins with incredible speed. Every moment she sticks innumer-…
Lace and lace making -- Italy
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