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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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f the eighteenth century.Some fine specimens of these were shown by M. DupontdAuberville in the International Exhibition, and Mariniquotes from a document of the seventeenth century, in which,speaking of merletti, it is said that these laces, styled punti in aria, or di Burano, because the greater part of themwere made in the country so called, are considered by Lannonias more noble and of greater whiteness, and for excellency ofdesign and perfect workmanship equal to those of Flanders,and in solidity superior. A new departure has been taken in modern times, inthe making of hand-made laces at the island of Burano,near Venice, where a large number of girls were employedin the eighteenth century, both in the town and theconvents, in making a point closely resembling that ofAlencon. Here the art lingered on as late as 1845, whena superannuated nun of ninety, with whom Mrs. Dennis-toun, of Dennistoun, conversed on the subject, said howin her younger days she and her companions employed bo
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5 ** cs a) Ph J1 >i o H a> t> rj H oo ^ H ;_, ■^ tU O PL; To face page 58. VENICE 59 their time in the fabric of punto di Burano ; ^^ how it wasordered long beforehand for great marriages, and even thencost very dear. She showed specimens still tacked on paper :the ground is made right across the thread of the lace. Burano point had not the extreme delicacy of theVenetian point a reseau or of Alen^on, and the late Alengonpatterns were copied. Though needle-made, it was workedon a pillow arranged with a cylinder for convenience ofworking. The unevenness of the thread gives the reseaua cloudy appearance, and the cordonnet is, like the Brusselsneedlepoint, of thread stitched round the outline instead ofthe Alengon button-hole stitch over horse-hair. The meshof the reseau is square, as in Alengon, Fig. 32 is copied from a specimen purchased at Buranoby the Cav. Merli, of the maker, an old woman known bythe name of Cencia Scarpariola. In 1866, the industrywas extinct, and the Co

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