. 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 . med foldingfan. She wears the lace-trimmed tabs of thebodice and corsage trimming of lace charac-teristic of the period. By W. Hollar, 1639. Portrait of a Woman, by Rembrandt,1640. wielded by a man. This famous depictorof the manners and modes of the seven-teenth century shows us many folding fanstrimmed with lace. Narrow bands ofinsertion occur at the upper edge of themount and occasionally at inte
. 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 . med foldingfan. She wears the lace-trimmed tabs of thebodice and corsage trimming of lace charac-teristic of the period. By W. Hollar, 1639. Portrait of a Woman, by Rembrandt,1640. wielded by a man. This famous depictorof the manners and modes of the seven-teenth century shows us many folding fanstrimmed with lace. Narrow bands ofinsertion occur at the upper edge of themount and occasionally at intervals acrossthe lower part. The parchment lace, as it was called Parchmentin England when silk, gold or silver ac?usedthread was twisted over the thin strips of trimming,cartisane or card board which formed themain lines of the design, greatly enhancedthe value of the sixteenth and seventeenthcentury fans ; and the prices sometimespaid for them appear somewhat extrava-gant, considering the difference in value ofmoney in those days ; the sticks of suchfans, however, were not infrequentlystudded with precious stones. 1,200crowns was given for a fan presented by F 66 HISTORY OF HAND-MADE Fan-leaf of Needle-point Lace, made at the Presentation Convent, Youghal, Co. Cork. Nineteenth century. Queen Elizabeth to Queen Louise of Lorraine; one of Queen Elizabeths fans wasvalued at ^400. It was this Queen who decreed that a fan was the only presentwhich a subject could give to the sovereign, and we believe that the old law stillholds good. In reading the general history of each fine variety of lace, a knowledgeis gained of fan-lace history, for it has no separate story with regard to itsconstruction. The designs in lace fans have always varied according to the prevailing fashionof the day since the seventeenth century, when lace was first used for the purposeof making whole lace fans. Renaissance arabesques and richness of workmanshipdistinguished the early eighteenth century spec
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