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Point and pillow lace; a short account of various kinds, ancient and modern, and how to recognise them (1905)

Sharp, Mary · London, J. Murray · leaf 48

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, principally owlng to the fact that during the English occupation of the Ionian Islands a great deal of it was found there and bought by English visitors. There seems little doubt that it was both made and largely used in Corfu and the nelo-hbourino- islands, but it Is never- theless undoubtedly… … Cut-work, or Punto tagliata. 25 GOLD AND SILVER LACE 27 by Venetians and in constant communication withthe mother city ; it is not therefore surprising thatthis Italian Lace should have been imported, imitatedand have become naturalised there. At any ratethere is no distinctive character either of…

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