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Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)

Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co., ltd. · leaf 252

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nufactories fell in 1793 ; it wasdeemed a royal lace, and hated accordingly. Someof the unhappy lace-makers perished with theirpatterns on the scaffold. All lace-making suffered.Over thirty kinds of lace were abandoned, and their Commodes, Mobs, and Pinners sss manufacture has never been revived ;… … Mrs. Daniel Waldo. revived some of the old laces, and there appearedthe black blond lace known now as Spanish lace,This went largely to Spain and the Spanish coloniesin America. The beautiful Cuban mantillas ofthose days we all have seen ; they have becomefamily heirlooms. It was not till 1835 ^^^^…

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