. 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 . 122 HISTORY OF HAND-MADE LACE. and eighteenth centuries to distinguish it from other hand-made laces which, thoughfrequently supported on a pillow, were executed without bobbins. During theearly part of the nineteenth century, when there was little accurate knowledge oflace, the custom of calling bobbin lace pillow lace grew, but none who have seenthe workers of lace in the great modern schools of E
. 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 . 122 HISTORY OF HAND-MADE LACE. and eighteenth centuries to distinguish it from other hand-made laces which, thoughfrequently supported on a pillow, were executed without bobbins. During theearly part of the nineteenth century, when there was little accurate knowledge oflace, the custom of calling bobbin lace pillow lace grew, but none who have seenthe workers of lace in the great modern schools of Europe and know that needle-point and knotted laces, as well as bobbin lace, are supported in the hands of theworker on a pillow, can accept the term pillow lace as a distinctive title for one kindonly. The French dentelle an fuseau alludes to the bobbins, the Italian terma Piombini signifies iron-weighted bobbins, and Mevletti a Fuselli bobbin lace,. Cuff.—Band of Linen embroidered in Satin Stitch and edged with a broad and with a narrow length ofsilk Bobbin-made Lace with a wavy tape-like pattern. Probably Maltese ; seventeenth century. correctly so called by Lady Layard in her Technical History of Italian is time that England returned to her old accuracy in describing this kind oflace. The fact that lace has been made upon the pillow with bobbins can usuallybe detected by the plaiting and twisting of the threads. The forerunners of thebobbins used by pillow lace makers were little implements which are to be seenin a picture in a Harleian MS. of the time of Henry VI. and Edward IV., inwhich directions are given for the making of Lace Bascon, Lace Indented,Lace Bordered, and Open Lace, &c. The MS. describes how threads incombinations of twos, threes, fours, fives, tens, and fifteens are to be twisted and A DICTIONARY OF LACE. 123 plaited together ; instead of the pillow bobbins and pins with which pillow lace isnow m
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