. A history of hand-made lace : dealing with the origin of lace, the growth of the great lace centres, the mode of manufacture, the methods of distinguishing and the care of various kinds of lace . Andre le Notre, Chevalier of the order of , Councillor of the King (Louis XIV.),Controller General of His Majestys Gardens,Arts and Manufactories of France. He wearssleeve ruffles and cravat of richest Point deFrance, which at that period was identicalwith Venetian Point. SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. 3i created by another, stamping on the original invention some special character-istics, but at an
. A history of hand-made lace : dealing with the origin of lace, the growth of the great lace centres, the mode of manufacture, the methods of distinguishing and the care of various kinds of lace . Andre le Notre, Chevalier of the order of , Councillor of the King (Louis XIV.),Controller General of His Majestys Gardens,Arts and Manufactories of France. He wearssleeve ruffles and cravat of richest Point deFrance, which at that period was identicalwith Venetian Point. SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. 3i created by another, stamping on the original invention some special character-istics, but at any rate in the case of Point de Venise, Fate seems to have decidedthat the original trade should return to the city which gave birth to the type. After rivalling Venice and Genoa in all industrial arts in the Middle Ages,Belgium had suffered through the persecution of her skilled workpeople by theSpanish Government. In 1620, however, the new activity in the commerce of lace. Henry, Prince of Wales, son of King1 James I., in elaborate collartrimmed with Punto in Aria of very beautiful design. revived the old industry, which spread from Valenciennes, then a town of Flanders,to Antwerp, Lille, and Bruges. At the commencement of the Belgian lace industry the Gothic and Venetianstyles had been copied; later on the Genoa Guipures were adopted; and finally theBelgian Point de Gaze was invented, and from it the celebrated Point de Bruxellesand no less important Applique. The impetus to point lace-making in the seventeenth century benefited thebobbin lace industry indirectly, for those who could not afford to wear needle-pointmust needs be in the fashion in lace-wearing, and an increased demand for the 32 HISTORY OF HAND-MADE LACE. A newfashion inlace-wearingintroducedon abattlefield. A popularhead-dresswas theresult of anaccident. cheaper pillow laces sprang up. The paintings of this period, the portraits byRubens, Van Dyck, and Rembrandt, the figures and interio
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