Lacis, practical instructions in filet brodé or darning on net; . Illustration 70.—Collar made in Cyprus. Netting is still the occupation of many Swedish womento-day, and they use the plain variety very largely for windowcurtains and other hangings for the house. I hope in a future series to give fuller information,with specimens, of this work now being done in thesecountries. Ornamental netting executed in the finest gold and silver 99 La cis threads, and further decorated with precious stones, has beenapplied to purposes of dress from time immemorial, and many-are the examples from those ear
Lacis, practical instructions in filet brodé or darning on net; . Illustration 70.—Collar made in Cyprus. Netting is still the occupation of many Swedish womento-day, and they use the plain variety very largely for windowcurtains and other hangings for the house. I hope in a future series to give fuller information,with specimens, of this work now being done in thesecountries. Ornamental netting executed in the finest gold and silver 99 La cis threads, and further decorated with precious stones, has beenapplied to purposes of dress from time immemorial, and many-are the examples from those early Babylonian and Egyptiandays of highest luxury, from the more refined, and perhapsmore effeminate elegance of Greece and Rome to the firstNapoleonic Empire, with its recrudescence of Egyptian artand On storied urn and sculptured vase netting stands out asone of the most generally accepted ornaments of dress, andgolden fillets, and jewelled nets fine as the filmy webs thespider weaves are constantly represented. In the inventory of 1393 of the Duke of Burgundy men-tion is made dun petit pourpoinct de satin noir et lagorgerette de maille dargent de Chippre. Queen Philippa would not be recognised without her caul,and in her time as well as in the later time of Marguerite deFrance, Duchesse de Savoie, daughter of Francis I., born in A Short Account of Nets 1523, gold nets and lichus, as well as fronts of dresses, wereworn by all women of high degree. In the inventory of Mary Queen of Scots there is thefollowing description of a dress so ornamented :— Une robbede veloux noyer faicte a bourletz tout le bor couppe parefcaille bordee dune frange dargent et le tout de ladite robbeeft de reieu dargent faict a mode de paffement et role pardeffus ladite robbe dont elle eft toute couuerte.
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