. 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 . difference betweenthe fabricsmade at Cal-vados andthose of Chan-tilly. (Furtherdetails aregiven underBlonde deCaen andBlonde NetLace.) ChenilleLace. A needle-point lacemade inFrance duringthe eighteenthcentury. Theground was asilk honey-comb patternswere chieflygeometrical,and were out-lined with finewhite chenille ; the fillings were thick coarse thread stitches. Chioggia Lace. Bobbin la
. 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 . difference betweenthe fabricsmade at Cal-vados andthose of Chan-tilly. (Furtherdetails aregiven underBlonde deCaen andBlonde NetLace.) ChenilleLace. A needle-point lacemade inFrance duringthe eighteenthcentury. Theground was asilk honey-comb patternswere chieflygeometrical,and were out-lined with finewhite chenille ; the fillings were thick coarse thread stitches. Chioggia Lace. Bobbin lace, resembling the old Flemish laces, but coarser in quality, is nowmuch made at the Island of Chioggia, near Venice. The revival in this industrytook place under the direction of Fambri in 1872, at the same time as the revivalin needle-point lace-making at Burano was initiated. Church Lace. An Italian needle-point lace made in the seventeenth century for theborderings of altar-cloths and priests vestments. The ground was coarse, and thepattern in button-hole stitch was worked upon it. Elaborate pictures were made,figure subjects illustrating incidents in the Bible and Church history being. Scarf of Chantilly Lace ; nineteenth century. A DICTIONARY OF LACE. 137 wrought in the button-hole stitching. The rarest and most beautiful laces of allkinds have also been used for Church purposes since lace was first made. Furtherdetails are given in the chapter on Ecclesiastical Lace. Cinq Trous. A lace made at Le Puy and in other parts of France; the ground is five-sidedmesh. Le Puy Lace is described under its own heading. Clinquant. The flat kind of Bullion Lace, to which heading the reader is referred. Cluny Guipure Lace. This is one of the earliest forms of lace known ; its origin is lost in antiquity ;it was known as Opus Filatorium in early times, and as Opus Araneum or SpiderWork in the Middle Ages. Many patterns of these laces are to be found in thepattern books of Vinciola of the
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