Lace, its origin and history . Real Real Bruges. 51 52 Lace: Its Origin and History. and thread, and also in black Barcelona silk. There is also a cottonmachine-made variety, used chiefly in trimming muslin history of Maltese lace is interesting from the fact that the kindoriginally made in that island by the natives, which was a coarse varietyof Mechlin or Valenciennes, of an arabesque pattern, was in 1833 super-seded by the manufacture of the white and black silk guipures now sowidelv known as Maltese lace. This improvement was clue to LadyHamilton Chichester, who broug
Lace, its origin and history . Real Real Bruges. 51 52 Lace: Its Origin and History. and thread, and also in black Barcelona silk. There is also a cottonmachine-made variety, used chiefly in trimming muslin history of Maltese lace is interesting from the fact that the kindoriginally made in that island by the natives, which was a coarse varietyof Mechlin or Valenciennes, of an arabesque pattern, was in 1833 super-seded by the manufacture of the white and black silk guipures now sowidelv known as Maltese lace. This improvement was clue to LadyHamilton Chichester, who brought laceworkers over from Genoa toteach their craft in the island. Some of the patterns from that timeshowed the influence of the Genoese instruction. Maltese lace is madenot only in Malta, but in Auvergne and Lepuy in France; in Bucking-hamshire and Bedfordshire, in England, and also in the Irish laceschools. Ceylon and Madras lace also resembles Maltese. Formerlyshawls and veils of much beauty and value were made of this lace, butthe manu
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