Identifier: historyoflac00pall (find matches)
Title: History of lace
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Palliser, Bury, Mrs., 1805-1878 Jourdain, Margaret Dryden, Alice
Subjects: Lace and lace making
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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times victorious I have fought under,And cut through squadrons of your curious Cut-work,As I will do through mine. ^^ In the Pound head army he will scarce deign to comb hiscropped locks. All is now dingy, of a sad colour, soberly incharacter with the tone of the times. J* Bartholomew Fan-. 1614. A suite of russet laced all over She shewed me gowns and liead with silver curie lace.— Expenses of tires, liobt. Sidney, Earl of Leicester. Temp. Embroidered waistcoats, smocks seamd Clias. 1. thro with cut-works. ^^ • This comes of wearing —Beaumont and Fletcher, • Four Scarlet, gold lace and cut-works; yourPlays in One. 1647. fine gartering ~^ Who would ha thought a woman AVith your blown roses.so well harnessd, —Tlie Devil is an Asft. Or rather well caparisond, indeed, Notes from BlacJx Fryers. That wears such petticoats, and lace Jasper Mayne. Amorous War. to her smocks, 1659.Broad seaming laces.—Ben Jonson, ^ The Little French Lawyer. The Devil is an Ass. 1616. Plate LXXXII.
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James Harrington, Author of Oceana, 1611-1677. Between 1630-1640.By Gerard Honthorst. National Portrait Gallery, Photo by Walker and Cocker ell. To face page 332. k THE COMMONWEALTH 333, THE COMMONWEALTH. The rule of the Puritans was a sad time for lace-makers^as regards the middle and lower classes : every villagefestival, all amusement was put down, bride laces andMayings—all were vanity. With respect to the upper classes, the Puritan ladies, aswell as the men of birth, had no fancy for exchanging therich dress of the Stuart Court for that of the Roundheads.Sir Thomas Fairfax, father of the General, is described aswearing a buff coat, richly ornamented with silver lace,his trunk hose trimmed with costly Flanders lace, hisbreastplate partly concealed by a falling collar of the samematerial. The foreie^n Ambassadors of the Parliamentdisdained the Puritan fashions. Lady Fanshaw describesher husband as wearing at the Court of Madrid, on someState occasion, his linen very fine, laced w

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