. 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 . There -were winter and summer laces. Harlequins Drews, richly trimmed with goldlace and galloon ; eighteenth from a photograph of the originaldress in the Correo Mnsemn, Venice. 44 HISTORY OF HAND-MADE LACE. The lace apron disappears. dEspagne. Soon after, the Anti-Gallican Society was founded to correct thetaste for foreign manufactures and to distribute prizes for bone point lace and
. 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 . There -were winter and summer laces. Harlequins Drews, richly trimmed with goldlace and galloon ; eighteenth from a photograph of the originaldress in the Correo Mnsemn, Venice. 44 HISTORY OF HAND-MADE LACE. The lace apron disappears. dEspagne. Soon after, the Anti-Gallican Society was founded to correct thetaste for foreign manufactures and to distribute prizes for bone point lace andother English-made fabrics. This society did excellent work in fostering theartistic beauty of English lace, and its prizes were frequently competed for bygentlewomen, who could carry out designs and stitches of a quality andfineness equal to the convent-made lace abroad, as their living did notentirely depend on the quick execution of their work. With the end of the eighteenth century in England the lace apron, popular sincethe time of Queen Elizabeth, finally disappeared, together with the mob cap pinnedunder the chin ; and though costly point was still worn, blonde lace had made its. Border of Bobbin-made Trolly Lace, 2 inches wide. Late eighteenth century. appearance, and with its novel, light effect, charmed the ladies who were ever on thelook-out for what new whim adorns the ruffle. All the efforts of George III. to protect English manufactures did but encouragethe smugglers; notwithstanding royal edicts ladies would have foreign laces, and ifothers could not smuggle them, they themselves were always ready to run somerisk and invent some ingenious plan for evading the Customs House officers, whowere not only busy at the seaports at this time, but frequently raided the tailorsand milliners shops in London, their finds being publicly burnt. But with the terrible years of 1792 and 1793 all this was to cease. The greatlace-wearers of France, the nobility and aristocracy, by t
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