Palliser, Bury, Mrs., 1805-1878, Jourdain, Margaret, Dryden, Alice · New York : C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 466
t is far inferior to the lace of convent make. Themaking of this Spanish point formed a favourite amusement ofthe Swedish ladies of the seventeenth century : bed-hangings,coverlets, and toilets of their handiwork may still be foundin the remote castles of the provinces. We have receivedthe… … To face page 282. RUSSIA 283 EUSSIA. After his visit to Paris early in the eighteenth century,Peter the Great founded a manufacture of silk lace atNovgorod, which in the time of the Empress Elizabeth fellinto decay. In the reign of Catherine II. there were twelvegold lace-makers at St. Petersburg,…
Lace and lace making
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