. Florence home needle-work. rst kind of work as contrasted withthe intricate patterns of the other. It is not our purpose tooffer any instruction here in this branch of pillow lace-mak-ing, the illustrations being used simply to show the originalpurpose of Honiton braid. HONITON LACE. The first laces made in England were the outworks anddarned laces, and to these succeeded bone laces, a manu-facture brought from the Continent by early record of the first making of bone lace in Devonshireis obscure, but Honiton was the centre of the trade in thetime of Queen Elizabeth, and it is
. Florence home needle-work. rst kind of work as contrasted withthe intricate patterns of the other. It is not our purpose tooffer any instruction here in this branch of pillow lace-mak-ing, the illustrations being used simply to show the originalpurpose of Honiton braid. HONITON LACE. The first laces made in England were the outworks anddarned laces, and to these succeeded bone laces, a manu-facture brought from the Continent by early record of the first making of bone lace in Devonshireis obscure, but Honiton was the centre of the trade in thetime of Queen Elizabeth, and it is believed that bone lace 20 FLORENCE HOME MEEDLE-WORK. was made there in the very early part of her reign. Thelaces then made were a coarse thread lace and plaited lacesof gold and silver thread, after the Italian and Greek retice- las. The making of Eng-lish lace was from an earlydate protected by royal en-actments, which forbade theimportation of foreign laces,particularly excluding Flem- : mm K^HH mmmm ?pfl Wmm mmmm WmWm. Fig. 20. — Design for LaceEmbroidery. ish. The Honiton lace workers FlG 21 _Desi6N por Lace attempted to imitate Brussels Embroidery lace, that made by them being largely worn at the court ofCharles II., but it was very inferior to the true Brusselslace, the delicate fillings and open-work stitches so pro-fusely scatteredover that lacebeing omitted, andheavy guipure barssubstituted. Thepatterns also werenot true copies ofthe originals, butrendered unmean-ing by the altera-tions made in themand by the coarse-ness of the thread used. Queen Anne repealed the laceedicts, but George II. and George III. re-enacted them;and as, by this time, the guipure bar ground in Honiton
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