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Title: A history of hand-made lace : dealing with the origin of lace, the growth of the great lace centres, the mode of manufacture, the methods of distinguishing and the care of various kinds of lace
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Jackson, Emily, 1861-
Subjects: Lace and lace making
Publisher: London : L. Upcott Gill New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library

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, and such nineteenth century laces, being merelyfresh patterns of old types. The Polychromo lace is made with bobbins, the finestsilk threads being used instead ot flax. The silks are of different colours, as manyas thirty varying shades of one colour sometimes being used, and perhaps 400bobbins on a border a few inches in width. The effect is very beautiful, and thelace, which is used both for costly furniture trimming and for personal adornment,is made from old Venetian and Raphaelesque designs. A DICTIONARY OF LACE. 191 Popes Point. A name sometimes given to Venetian Point Lace (which is described underVenetian Laces). Portuguese Laces. Trie old Portuguese Point lace resembles flat Venetian Point. There waslittle commercial lace-making in Portugal before the eighteenth century ; it formed oa_5 CD a fa p o 8 ^1 a a OiO a HIf* a s- ppjr. &■ o ^ a oc*-a o p2 » 3 cl-O o ~ &5 a §-«■ p O TJn-O<f^ 2 & < a- s» c0? g. ? a r (d a*2 ^§o ^ ro aa c in- el-s*?7* O P31
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ig2 HISTORY OF HAND-MADE LACE. the work and amusement of a few women who executed orders in their ownhouses. Stringent Sumptuary laws were enacted in 1749, which discouraged thewearing of lace. After the earthquake at Lisbon, in 1755, the Marquis de Pombalfounded a lace manufactory. Early in the present century a coarse white bobbinlace was made in Lisbon and its environs. Bobbin lace of the Torchon varietywas also made at Madeira, but the industry died out until about twenty years ago,when a school was set up and lace-making re-commenced. Much of the lace ofMadeira is made entirely by men. The patterns are mostly Maltese or Greek incharacter, the women being employed on the well-known Madeira embroidery. Lace is now extensively made at Peniche, a little peninsula north of Lisbon,where the wives of the fishermen are expert in the art. The fabric made is invery broad widths without joins, and these necessitate wide pillows which arecylindrical in form. The women sit with the pillows ac

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