Decorative textiles; an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, walls and floors, including damasks, brocades and velvets, tapestries, laces, embroideries, chintzes, cretonnes, drapery and furniture trimmings, wall papers, carpets and rugs, tooled and illuminated leathers . e English lassoo. Equiv-alent to lace of the kind that forms the subject of this chapter arethe French dentelle, guipure, point; the German Spitzen and Kanten;the Spanish encaje; the Italian trina, merletto, panto, pizzo; and theLatin opus reticulatum et denticulatum. The French lacis means net,and the French lacet cor
Decorative textiles; an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, walls and floors, including damasks, brocades and velvets, tapestries, laces, embroideries, chintzes, cretonnes, drapery and furniture trimmings, wall papers, carpets and rugs, tooled and illuminated leathers . e English lassoo. Equiv-alent to lace of the kind that forms the subject of this chapter arethe French dentelle, guipure, point; the German Spitzen and Kanten;the Spanish encaje; the Italian trina, merletto, panto, pizzo; and theLatin opus reticulatum et denticulatum. The French lacis means net,and the French lacet cord or braid. EARLY ITALIAN LACES The earliest of the important Italian laces were reticella, filetitalien, and buratto. The first was a development of drawn and cutwork (Plate I), but the name was retained for similar lace madewith the needle without cloth foundation. The designs are geometricaland simple, and arranged in small squares. When needle lace so completely freed itself from its reticella andcut work ancestry (Plates I, II and IV) as to be worked in boldand irregular patterns like those of Plate II, it began to be called airpoint (punto in aria), the highest type of Venetian laces. 91 ^?•fc—•«*»*_«» Wmr.: io«.%- M 33 < ? ^*<-. ^w * ^*!».
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