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Old lace : a handbook for collectors; an account of the different styles of lace, their history, characteristics & manufacture (1908)

Jourdain, Margaret · London : B. T. Batsford · leaf 123

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MILANESE LACE. 33 Frattini, in his Storia dell Industria Manufatturiera in Lombardia,states the inhabitants of the Cantu district made lace from about1600. Towards the middle of the eighteenth century the industryhad fallen into decay. The Milanese, writes Lalande, only fabricatelace of an inferior…

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