. History of lace. - Hamilton Chiches- tinguishing mark. SS HISTORY OF LACE induced a woman named Ciglia to copy in white the lace ofan old Greek coverlet. The Ciglia family from that timecommenced the manufacture of the black and white silkguipures, so ,2:enerally known under the name of Malteselace. Much Maltese is made in the orphanage in the littleadjacent island of Gozo. Malta has certainly the first claimto the invention of these fine guipures, which have sincemade the fortune of Auvergne, where they have been exten-sively manufactured at Le Puy, as well as by our own lace-makers of Bedf
. History of lace. - Hamilton Chiches- tinguishing mark. SS HISTORY OF LACE induced a woman named Ciglia to copy in white the lace ofan old Greek coverlet. The Ciglia family from that timecommenced the manufacture of the black and white silkguipures, so ,2:enerally known under the name of Malteselace. Much Maltese is made in the orphanage in the littleadjacent island of Gozo. Malta has certainly the first claimto the invention of these fine guipures, which have sincemade the fortune of Auvergne, where they have been exten-sively manufactured at Le Puy, as well as by our own lace-makers of Bedfordshire and in the Irish schools. The blackis made of Barcelona silk, the same used in Catalonia forthe fabrication of the black blonde mantillas of the Spanish Vvy. 1-1)1 HKix i)K Vki:1)A1,k.—(.Kroin the cast of his Joiiib, Musde dc Versailles.) ladies. Fig. 41 represents the lace round the ecclesiasticalrobe of Hus^ues Loubeux de Verdale, Cardinal and GrandMaster of the Knights of Malta, who died in 1595, andis buried in the church of St. John, where a maonificenttomb is erected to his memory. Pillow-laces made by women in Ceylon and Travancore,as well as elsewhere in India,^* seem to owe more to theinstruction of the Portuo:uese than to the Dutch or mention it in this place because the specimens of threadpillow-lace from Point de Galle and Candy bear a striking ^ •• A lace of similar character (Mai- in the missionary schools at Madras tese) has also been made successfully (Mrs. Palliser). XX
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