. History of lace . rate price.*^° So opulent arethe citizens, says a writer of the same epoch, that the lowestmechanics, blacksmiths and shoemakers, appear in gold stuffcoats with ruffles of the finest point.^^ And when, in 1767, the Auvergne lace-makers petitionfor an exemption from the export duty on their fabrics, theystate as a ground that the duty prevents them from com-peting abroad, especially at Cadiz, with the lace-makers ofPiedmont, the Milanais, and Lnperial Flanders. Milan must,therefore, have made lace extensively to a late period. • Harl. MS. No. 1419. ^* Grand Dictionnaire Univ
. History of lace . rate price.*^° So opulent arethe citizens, says a writer of the same epoch, that the lowestmechanics, blacksmiths and shoemakers, appear in gold stuffcoats with ruffles of the finest point.^^ And when, in 1767, the Auvergne lace-makers petitionfor an exemption from the export duty on their fabrics, theystate as a ground that the duty prevents them from com-peting abroad, especially at Cadiz, with the lace-makers ofPiedmont, the Milanais, and Lnperial Flanders. Milan must,therefore, have made lace extensively to a late period. • Harl. MS. No. 1419. ^* Grand Dictionnaire Univmsel du ^ Eoll. P. E. 0. Commerce. 1723. ^^ P. E. O. ^ Voyage en Italie. 1765. ^ De la Mare, Traite de la Police. ^^ Peuchet, J., Dictionnaire TJniver- ^^ Statuts, Ordonnances et Eegle- sel de la GeograjMe Commergante. mens de la Communaute des Maistres Paris, An vii. = 1799. Passementiers, etc., de Paris, confirmez Letters from Italy, by a lady, sur les anciens Statuts du 23 mars Paris, 1719. ILATK XV. :;; o •~J ,2 o 4J o Q <D 0) -^^ hJ p ^^ <i ,0 O o y Ph A Vl/ Illi-r /iiii/r CA. MILAN 65 Fig. :33 is <i specimen of what lias l)eeii termed old Milanpoint, from the convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie, in thatcity. It is more (iften known as Greek lace. The so-called punti di Milano—points de Mihin—wereall bobljin-laces, which orioinated in Milan, and, thouohimitated 1)} Genoa and Naples, remained unapproached in Fio. .33.
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