. 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 . ded, the two points nearly reaching the edge of the skirt at theback, and the front being fastened across with a shawl brooch or ornamental pinspecially made for the purpose. Black silk lace is now made at Bayeux, at Chantilly, in Malta, and inCatalonia. Embroidered net lace work is extensively made in the prisons in Italy,machine-made black net being darned with silk in bold effective patterns. A c
. 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 . ded, the two points nearly reaching the edge of the skirt at theback, and the front being fastened across with a shawl brooch or ornamental pinspecially made for the purpose. Black silk lace is now made at Bayeux, at Chantilly, in Malta, and inCatalonia. Embroidered net lace work is extensively made in the prisons in Italy,machine-made black net being darned with silk in bold effective patterns. A coarseloosely-woven silk thread is used for the purpose. Blandford Lace. Defoe wrote of Blandford in Dorsetshire : This city is chielly famous formaking the finest bone lace in England ; they showed us some, so exquisitely fine,as I think I never saw better in Flanders, France, or Italy; and which, they said,they rated above £30 sterling a yard. This was in 1731. Soon after the whole 120 HISTORY OF HAND-MADE LACE. town, with the exception of twenty-six houses, was consumed by fire, and thelace trade greatly declined, being replaced by that of button making, in which itis now cheflv Black Lace of Caen and Bayeux (much reduced) ; nineteenth century. Blonde de Caen. A silk bobbin-made lace. It was about 1745 that the blonde laces, whichhave rendered Caen famous, first appeared ; both black and white flax threadlaces had formerly been made in the neighbourhood. At first the blondes were of a creamy colour, hence the name nankins orblondes, the silk being imported from Nankin. Later improvements in thepreparation of the silk made white blondes possible, and their lightness andbrilliancy account ior their popularity. A DICTIONARY OF LACE. 121 When, early in the nineteenth century, the thread lace-makers were reducedto ruin by the introduction of machine-made net, the silk blonde workers enjoyedincreased prosperity. It was about1840 that the lace-makers of Caenbegan the manu
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