Palliser, Bury, Mrs., 1805-1878, Jourdain, Margaret, Dryden, Alice · New York : C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 102
ly I8th centui-y. To face page 54. VENICE 55 mends his friend, Mr. Claude Somebody, a French dealer,who probably paid him in ruffles for the advertisement. Our porte-bouquets and lace-trimmed nosegays arenothing new. On the occasion of the annual visit of theDoge to the Convent delle Vergini, the… … Venice Point. Fynes Moryson^ is the earliest known traveller whoalludes to the products of Venice. Venetian ladies ingeneral, he says, wear a standing collar and ruffs close upto the chin ; the unmarried tie their hair with gold andsilver lace. Evidently the collars styled bavari, forwhich Vecellio…
Lace and lace making
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