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History of lace (1902)

Palliser, Bury, Mrs., 1805-1878, Jourdain, Margaret, Dryden, Alice · New York : C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 99

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ign, but some are verycomplicated and beautiful. The ordinance of Colbert must have inflicted a seriousinjury on the Venice lace trade, which, says Daru, occupoitla population de la capitale. In Britannia Languens, adiscourse upon trade, London, 1680,^^ it is said that the lacescommonly called… … K^i\m.U PUNTO TiRATO (Drawn Lace). French no longer purchase these articles, having estab-lished themselves manufactures which rival those of theAdriatic. Still the greater number of travellers ^^ make a provisionof points in their passage through Venice, and are usuallycheated, whites a traveller…

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