. 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 . nth century show open-work borders of gold threads, twisted and plaited laws were constantly made in the countrieswhere the wearing of gold and silver thread laces werefashionable; so that in its manufacture and import is largelyinvolved the early history of the civilised world. It wasgreatly owing to such laces that the beautiful thread lacesof the present day were evolved, for,
. 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 . nth century show open-work borders of gold threads, twisted and plaited laws were constantly made in the countrieswhere the wearing of gold and silver thread laces werefashionable; so that in its manufacture and import is largelyinvolved the early history of the civilised world. It wasgreatly owing to such laces that the beautiful thread lacesof the present day were evolved, for, gold and silver threadlace-making becoming an unprofitable industry on accountof edicts forbidding the wearing of the precious metals,the lace-makers worked out their patterns in flax thread ;and when they found how much easier of manipulationwas the substituted material, more intricate designs wereattempted, graceful stitches invented, and so the flax threadlace was gradually evolved, and has grown in delicacy andloveliness. The variety of pattern worked in the stiff metal threadwas never considerable, the geometric designs being themost complicated that were attempted. The zenith of o W w. l62 HISTORY OF HAND-MADE LACE. success for gold and silver thread lace, or Point dEspagne, was attained inthe latter half of the seventeenth century. Though called Spanish lace, therewas far more of it made at Aurillac and Lyons than in Spain. The Jews expelledfrom Spain in the fourteenth century had brought their handicraft with them,and continued the work chiefly in France. Paris was also noted for its gold andsilver laces. Later on gold threads were largely manufactured at Madrid, butthis was chiefly in connection with the manufacture of tapestry. In Sweden gold lace was made in the fifteenth century, and in Russia it wasthe first kind attempted. The gold and silver lace of the present day would be more correctly calledbraid or galoon ; it is made by machinery, and is used for uniforms,
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