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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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ato, or cut-work, was muchused. In 1558, Matteo Pagan published the Glory and Honour of Cut Laces andOpen Laces, and a Venetian, F. Yinciolo, printed in Paris, in 1587, designs for Point Coupe. Cut-work declined in popularity when other laces of moreelaborate workmanship were made. At the end of the seventeenth century, 142 HISTORY OF HAND-MADE LACE. however, Lady Layard states that in the inventory of the linen garments whichform a part of the dowry of Cecelia de Mula, cloths with broad borders of cutlace are mentioned. When used for altar cloths, bed curtains, or other large surfaces, cut-workwas arranged with alternate squares of plain linen. The armorial shield of thefamily was a favourite device. Initial letters, fleurs-de-lis, and lozenges werefrequently pressed into the service for ornamentation. Many samplers, or samcloths, are still extant, which show us patterns for cut-work. The pattern booksbeing costly and easily destroyed, for the pattern had to be traced on to the cloth
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Collar of White Silk Cyprus Bobbin Lace ; latter half of the nineteenth century. Exhibited in theCyprus Court of the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, 1886. with a style, children were taught to copy the patterns on to their samplers.These were preserved carefully, and they have frequently been found upon the wallsof farmhouses and cottages, where lived the yeoman ancestors long ago. Cyprus Lace. A lace resembling cut-work, of very ancient origin. It was much used andhighly thought of in the Middle Ages, and was brought to England andFrance. An ancient variety was made of gold and silver threads. Its manu-facture is now extinct. The peasants, however, now make a coarse threadlace, and some fine specimens have recently been made of silk. These wereexhibited in the Cyprus Court of the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, held inLondon in 1886. A DICTIONARY OF LACE. H3 Dalecarlian Lace. A bobbin lace, made by the peasants for their own use in Dalecarlia, Sweden.In examining this fabric we are a

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