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History of lace (1902)

Palliser, Bury, Mrs., 1805-1878, Dryden, Alice, Jourdain, Margaret · London : Sampson Low, Marston · leaf 157

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under the name of Malteselace. Much Maltese is made in the orphanage in the littleadjacent island of Gozo. Malta has certainly the first claimto the invention of these fine guipures, which have sincemade the fortune of Auvergne, where they have been exten-.sively manufactured at Le Puy, as well as… … L<ii BKix DK Vekdalk.—(From tliu cast of his Tomb, Musee <le Versailles.) ladies. Fig. 41 represents the lace round the ecclesiasticalrobe of Hugues Loul)eux de Verdale, Cardinal and GrandMaster of the Knights of Malta, who died in 1595, andis buried in the church of St. John, where a…

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