. History of lace. a lace ground ^* Punti a stuora occur in II Spec-chio (1548), IFrutti (1564), and in theVeraPerfettione (1591) the word stuora(modern, stuoja) means also a mat ofplaited rushes, which some of theseinterlaced patterns may be intended to imitate. ^^ Burato. See Appendix. ^^ There are many patterns for thiswork in Le PomjJe di Minerva, (1530) lias desfilato amonghis punti. 54 HISTORY OF LACE made by drawing the threads of muslin (/z7/ tirati)F Thepresent specimen is simple in design, but some are verycomplicated and beautiful. The ordinance of Colbert must have i
. History of lace. a lace ground ^* Punti a stuora occur in II Spec-chio (1548), IFrutti (1564), and in theVeraPerfettione (1591) the word stuora(modern, stuoja) means also a mat ofplaited rushes, which some of theseinterlaced patterns may be intended to imitate. ^^ Burato. See Appendix. ^^ There are many patterns for thiswork in Le PomjJe di Minerva, (1530) lias desfilato amonghis punti. 54 HISTORY OF LACE made by drawing the threads of muslin (/z7/ tirati)F Thepresent specimen is simple in design, but some are verycomplicated and beautiful. The ordinance of Colbert must have inflicted a seriousinjury on the Venice lace trade, which, says Daru, occupoitla population de la capitale. In Britannia Languens, adiscourse upon trade, London, 1680,^^ it is said that the lacescommonly called Points de Yenise now come mostly fromFrance, and amount to a vast sum yearly. Savary, speaking of the thread laces termed Venice pointin the early part of the eighteenth century ,^^ says, The ■ Fij;. ).. K^i\ PUNTO TiRATO (Drawn Lace). French no longer purchase these articles, having estab-lished themselves manufactures which rival those of theAdriatic. Still the greater number of travellers ^^ make a provisionof points in their passage through Venice, and are usuallycheated, whites a traveller about this period.^^ He recom- ^^ Many other points are enumeratedin the pattern-books, of which we knownothing, such as gasii {IFrutti, 1564),trezola {Ibid), rimessi {Vera Perfet-tione, 1591), opere a mazzette (Vecellio,1591, and Lucretia Romana. ). ^^ Tracts on Trade of the Seven-teenth Century, published by MacCul-loch, at the expense of Lord Mont- eagle. 1856. ^• Venice point forms a considerableitem in the expenses of Charles II. andhis brother James. * Venice noted for needleworklaces, called points.—Travels ThroItaly and France, by J. Ray. 1738. *^ Misson, F. M., Noiiveau Voyagedltalie, 4me edition. La Haye, 1702. Fig. 26.
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