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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Monument of the Pkincess Mary. + i607. Third daughter of James I. (Westminster Abbey.) ( Sidneys sister, Pembrokes mother ), with its elaborateborder of swans (Fig. 127), is a good illustration of thefashion of her time. Among the early entries of Prince Charles, we have fournightcaps of cut-work, £7,* for making two of whicli for his stitched and shagged, and cut-worknightcaps, purchased for James I., inthe same account, with 28s. for oneload of hay to stuff the woolsacks forthe Parliament House.—G. W. Ace.Jac. I. 18 to 19. In the same year, 1620, an English company exported a large quantity ofgold and silver lace to India for theKing of Golconda. ^•^ Malcontent. 1600. ^^ Extraordinary expenses, 1622-26.P. E. 0. JAMES I 323 Highness, garnished with gold and silver lace, Patrick Burkereceives £15;^^ but these modest entries are quite put toshame by those of his royal father, who, for ten yards ofneedlework lace pro le edginge ^ of his galiriculis vulgo Fig. 127.
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Mary, Countess of Pembroke. + 1621.(From her portrait in Walpoles Royal ami Noble Authors.) nightcaps, pays £16 135. i.d.^^ Well might the Water-Poet exclaim— A nightcap is a garment of high state. ^^ When Queen Anne died, in 1619, we have an elaborate 37 2nd Ace. of Sir J. Yilliers. 1617-18. P. E. O. 3« Gt. W. A. Jac. I. 6 to 7.3^ Taylor. 1640:— The beau would feign sickness To show his nightcap fine,And his wrought pillow overspreadwith lawn.—Davies. Epigrams. Y 2 324 HISTORY OF LACE account of her funeral/* and of the sum paid to Doroth)^Speckart for dressing a hearse efiigy with a large veil, wiredand edged with peak lace and lawn, curiously cut in flowers,etc. Laced linen, however, was already discarded inmourning attire, for we find in the charges for the kingsmourning ruffs, an edging at 14(7. the piece is alonerecord ed.^^ Towards the end of James I.s reio-n a sins^ular customcame into fashion, brought in by the Puritan ladies, that ofrepresenting religious subjects, b

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