A history of hand-made lace : dealing with the origin of lace, the growth of the great lace centres, the mode of manufacture, the methods of distinguishing and the care of various kinds of lace (1900)
Jackson, Emily, 1861- · London : L. Upcott Gill ; New York : C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 27
he wife of one of the Pisani having presented herself at the Palace dressed in afashion forbidden by the decree of the Doge, she was sent back. In 1476 a serious blow was aimed at the lace trade, for a law was made for-bidding the use of silver and embroidery on any fabric and the Punto in Ariaof… … German Example of Drawn Linen Work, executed in the fourteenth century, when this earlyform of Open Ornamentation was soon to be supei\seded by the later forms of Lace-work. EVOLUTION OF LACE. 11 show a vain-glorious pomp which is most ruinous for the nobles and burgesses: thatof changing so often…
Lace and lace making
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