. History of lace. a M Ka< _: <i CDO ^^ O ^ 00 q c3 Pi. Q M CD cc H CO M 5502 O o To face [page 94. SPAIN 95 Antonio de Campos,^ in his book, Microscosmia y gohiernoUniversal del Hombre Crestlano, when he writes, I will notbe silent, and fail to mention the time lost these last years inthe manufacture of cadenetas, a work of thread combined withgold and silver; this extravagance and excess reached sucha point that hundreds and thousands of ducats were spent inthis work, in which, besides destroying the eyesight, wastingaway the lives, and rendering consumptive the women whoworked it, and
. History of lace. a M Ka< _: <i CDO ^^ O ^ 00 q c3 Pi. Q M CD cc H CO M 5502 O o To face [page 94. SPAIN 95 Antonio de Campos,^ in his book, Microscosmia y gohiernoUniversal del Hombre Crestlano, when he writes, I will notbe silent, and fail to mention the time lost these last years inthe manufacture of cadenetas, a work of thread combined withgold and silver; this extravagance and excess reached sucha point that hundreds and thousands of ducats were spent inthis work, in which, besides destroying the eyesight, wastingaway the lives, and rendering consumptive the women whoworked it, and preventing them from spending their timewith more advantage to their souls, a few ounces of thread Fig. 45.
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