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 . b—Bruges lace panel. Similar to Flanders lace butfiner in texture a—Flanders lace panel Plate VIII—EXAMPLES OF REAL LACE MOTIFS 90 LACES stained glass windows to France, and of silk to China. The develop-ment began in the fifteenth century, as illustrated in the paintings ofthe period and occasionally referred to in wi
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 . b—Bruges lace panel. Similar to Flanders lace butfiner in texture a—Flanders lace panel Plate VIII—EXAMPLES OF REAL LACE MOTIFS 90 LACES stained glass windows to France, and of silk to China. The develop-ment began in the fifteenth century, as illustrated in the paintings ofthe period and occasionally referred to in wills and inventories, andreached its height in the sixteenth century. Venice (Plates I, II),perhaps inspired by primitive laces and trimmings of the RomanEmpire of the East, and of Sicily, led in the development of lace madewith the needle, but was soon outstripped by Genoa in the produc-tion of lace made with bobbins. Another Italian city famous forbobbin lace in the sixteenth century was Milan. A majority of thedesigns were outlined in braid scrolls with openwork edge, heldtogether by slender plaited brides. The Genoese laces largely repro-duced the styles of Venetian reticella and other needlepoints. ORIGIN OF THE NAME The history of the English word lace follows
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