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History of lace (1902)

Palliser, Bury, Mrs., 1805-1878, Dryden, Alice, Jourdain, Margaret · London : Sampson Low, Marston · leaf 154

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e, publislied at Venice in 1557, is vervremarkable. We have seen specimens from Italy andTurkey. The conventionally termed Greek lace is really the Italianreficella. The designs of the earliest Greek laces were allgeometrical, the oldest being simple outlines worked overends or threads left after… … KETioKi.LA, nil Greek Lace.—(Zante.) The principal seats of the manufacture were the IonianIsles, Zante, Corfu, Venice, Naples, Rome, Florence andMilan. The Ionian Islands for many years belonged toVenice, which accounts for the similarity in the manufacture.Fig. 40 is from a specimen purchased in…

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