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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Russian.—Part of a long border setting forth a Procession. Lacis and embroidery in silk. The lace is bobbin-made in thread. Reseau similar to Valenciennes. The Russian thread is good quality linen. Size of portion shown 18^ x 14 in. The property of Madame Pogosky. Photo by A. Dryden. To face page 280. SWEDEN 281 Latterly this manufacture has been protected and theworkwomen carefully directed. Far more curious are the laces made by the peasants ofDalecarlia, still retaining the patterns used in the rest ofEurope two hundred years since. The broader ^^ kinds, ofwhich we give a woodcut (Fig. 117)^ are from Gaguef, thatpart of Dalecarlia where laces are mostly made and used.Married women wear them on their summer caps, muchstarched, as a shelter against the sun. Others, of an Fig. 117.
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Dalkcarlian Lace. unbleached thread, are from Orsa. This lace is neverAvashed, as it is considered an elegance to preserve thiscoffee-coloured tint. The firmness and solidity of these lastlaces are wonderful. The specimens from Eattwik are narrow seaminglaces of the lozenge pattern. There is also a sort of plaiting used as a fringe, in thestyle of the Genoese macrame, from the ends of a small -^ Some are twice the width of Fig. 117. 282 HISTORY OF LACE sheet wliicli the peasants spread over their pillows. Noimprovement takes place in the designs. The DalecarlianAvomen do not make a trade of laee-making, they merelywork to supply their own wants.^ Fig. 118 represents a lace collar worn by GustavusAdolphus, a relic carefully preserved in the NorthernMuseum at Stockholm. On it is inscribed in Swedish: This collar was worn .by Gustaf Adolf, King of Sweden,and presented, together with his portrait, as a remembrance,in 1632, to Miss Jacobina Lauber, of Auo^sburs:, because shewas the most be

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