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 45
Italy that skilled work-men were enticed. Catherine de Medicis, on her arrival fromItaly, encouraged enormous expenditure ondress, at the court in Paris, believing that thebrilliant fetes would divert the minds of thepeople from the unsatisfactory political state.Sumptuary edicts were issued in… … Rare specimen of Bobbin-made Lace ofunusual width and degraded ornamentresembling- the Peasant Lace of Crete.In each scallop a man with upliftedarms holds a flagon, and on either sideare deer. SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. 25
Lace and lace making
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