. History of lace. unlearned as the mermaids lace.^The girl, a worker in points, struck by the graceful nature ofthe seaweed, with its small white knots united, as it were, by 1^87. 21 j^aly we believe to have furnished ^^ Madame -de Puissieux died in her own thread. Fine white or 1677, at the age of eighty. nuns thread is made by the Augustine ^^ Venice points are not mentioned nuns of Crema, twisted after the same by name till the ordinance of 1654. manner as the silk of Bolonia, writes See Greek Islands. Skippin, 1651. -^ Hudihras. 22 HaUmedia opuntia, Linn. E so HISTORY OF LACE a bride, im
. History of lace. unlearned as the mermaids lace.^The girl, a worker in points, struck by the graceful nature ofthe seaweed, with its small white knots united, as it were, by 1^87. 21 j^aly we believe to have furnished ^^ Madame -de Puissieux died in her own thread. Fine white or 1677, at the age of eighty. nuns thread is made by the Augustine ^^ Venice points are not mentioned nuns of Crema, twisted after the same by name till the ordinance of 1654. manner as the silk of Bolonia, writes See Greek Islands. Skippin, 1651. -^ Hudihras. 22 HaUmedia opuntia, Linn. E so HISTORY OF LACE a bride, imitated it with lier needle, and after severalunsuccessful trials produced that delicate guipure whichbefore long became the taste of all Europe. It would be difficult to enumerate the various kinds oflace produced by Venice in her palmy days. The Cavaliere Merli has endeavoured to classify themaccording to the names in the pattern-books with whichVenice supplied the world, as well as with her points. Out Ficr. .UKKMAUS Lack. of some sixty of these works, whose names have beencollected, above one-third were published in Venice.^^ 1. Punto a reticella.^—Made either by drawing thethreads of th^ cloth, as in the samplar already given (Fig. 5),or by working the lace on a parchment pattern in button-hole stitch (punto smerlo). (Fig. 21.) This point is identicalwith what is commonly called Greek lace. Under this head comes punto reale (the opposite of reti-cella), where the linen ground is left and the design cut out.*Punto di cartella or cordella (card-work) is similar in effectto reticella, but the button-holing is done entirely over afoundation made l)y sewing coarse thread and bits of parchmenton to the desiirn and coverino; them with l)uttoii-hole stitch. ^^ That most frequently met withis the Corona of Vecellio. See Ap-pendix. ^* First mentioned in the Sforza In-ventory, 1493 (see Milan) ; not in the pattern-books till Vecellio, 1592;but Taglienti (1530) gives su la rete,
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