. History of lace. Q M CD cc H CO M 5502 O o To face [page 94. SPAIN 95 Antonio de Campos,^ in his book, Microscosmia y gohiernoUniversal del Hombre Crestlano, when he writes, I will notbe silent, and fail to mention the time lost these last years inthe manufacture of cadenetas, a work of thread combined withgold and silver; this extravagance and excess reached sucha point that hundreds and thousands of ducats were spent inthis work, in which, besides destroying the eyesight, wastingaway the lives, and rendering consumptive the women whoworked it, and preventing them from spending their timewi
. History of lace. Q M CD cc H CO M 5502 O o To face [page 94. SPAIN 95 Antonio de Campos,^ in his book, Microscosmia y gohiernoUniversal del Hombre Crestlano, when he writes, I will notbe silent, and fail to mention the time lost these last years inthe manufacture of cadenetas, a work of thread combined withgold and silver; this extravagance and excess reached sucha point that hundreds and thousands of ducats were spent inthis work, in which, besides destroying the eyesight, wastingaway the lives, and rendering consumptive the women whoworked it, and preventing them from spending their timewith more advantage to their souls, a few ounces of thread Fig. Unfinished Work of a Spanish Nun. and years of time were wasted with so unsatisfactory aresult. I ask myself, after the fancy has passed away, willthe lady or gentleman find that the chemises that cost themfifty ducats, or the basquina (petticoats) that cost them threehundred, are worth half their price ? The most important of Spanish ordinances ^° relating toSpanish art and industry are those which appeared in the ^ Baa-celona, 1892, page 225, quotedby Signor J. F. Eiano. Date of book1592. ^^ A. S. Cole, Ancient Needle-iwiritand Pillow-Lace. 96 HI ST OR Y OF LA CE fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in Tolecla and Seville, bothremarkable centres for all kinds of artistic productions. Inneither of these, nor in the sixteenth and seventeenth century Fig. 46.
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