Chats on Old Lace and Needlework

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ads stretched across, afterwards being buttonholed into a variety of designs. The edges are then again worked upon with loops or picots, and in "Rose Point" tiny stars or roses are worked on suitable parts of the design, sometimes the "roses" or "stars" being three in numbers, one poised upon the other. This is known as "Point de N

rsonal influence of his reign, frequently having tiny figures worked in the design. A collar in my possession has the Indian worshipping the sun (the King's glory was said to rival th

ational Library at the South Kensington Museum, may be seen the very patterns designed by Vinciolo, Vicellio, and Isabella Parasole. These publications actually came from Venice, and being

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n and called Spanish Point), and Point Plat de Venise. A much rarer variety is "Venetian point à réseau," which is the flat point worked roun

of lace; the wonderful diversities of the fillings worked in buttonhole stitches; the elaborate decoration of

dicis introducing the Medici collar trimmed with Venetian points specially to display them. At a little later period the collar became more falling and the heavier "Gros point" was used. Men and women al

re genuine works of art, worked slowly and patiently under the clear light of the Italian skies by women who were naturally artistic and beauty loving, and who, while working the shining needle and fairy thread in and out of the intricacies of the design sang the pretty "Lace

gth, and was sold for ￡145 by one of our leading lacemen. Barely 5 yards of Venetian lace, only 2 inches wide and in rags,

commanded high prices. In the inventory of Q

Italian Cut-worke,

ork lace of Italy, wit

paid ￡29 f

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