. History of lace . lace Pallisers statement above that lace by the aid of workers imported from was ever made in Malta; if so, it would Genoa. The Maltese cross has been have been of the Genoese geometrical introduced into the designs as a dis- kind. of which Lady Hamilton Chiches- tinguishing mark. ?ss ///STORY 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 generally known under the name of Malteselace. Much Maltese is made in the orphanage in the littlea
. History of lace . lace Pallisers statement above that lace by the aid of workers imported from was ever made in Malta; if so, it would Genoa. The Maltese cross has been have been of the Genoese geometrical introduced into the designs as a dis- kind. of which Lady Hamilton Chiches- tinguishing mark. ?ss ///STORY 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 generally 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 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 fal)rication of the black blonde mantillas of the Spanish Fig. L<ii BKix DK Vekdalk.—(From tliu cast of his Tomb, Musee <le Versailles.) ladies. Fig. 41 represents the lace round the ecclesiasticalrobe of Hugues Loul)eux de Verdale, Cardinal and GrandMaster of the Knights of Malta, who died in 1595, andis buried in the church of St. John, where a magnificenttomlj is erected to his memory. Pillow-laces made by women in Ceylon and Travancore,as well as elsew^here in India,* seem to owe more to theinstruction of the Portuguese 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 (Mal-tese) has also been made successfully in the missionary schools at Madras (Mrs. Palliser). k1 <
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