Embroidery and lace: their manufacture and history from the remotest antiquity to the present dayA handbook for amateurs, collectors and general readers . rial, the inside ofthe canopy, the covers for the pillars, three curtainsand a head curtain, a sheet of similar linen with a bandof reseuil, a state coverlet, all bordered with lace. . Laces, too, were used as trimmings for the interiors,and along the great open window-sashes, of coaches andcarriages, which increased in number as well made royalroads superseded the badly kept highways of the MiddleAges. These exaggerated uses of lace, etc.,
Embroidery and lace: their manufacture and history from the remotest antiquity to the present dayA handbook for amateurs, collectors and general readers . rial, the inside ofthe canopy, the covers for the pillars, three curtainsand a head curtain, a sheet of similar linen with a bandof reseuil, a state coverlet, all bordered with lace. . Laces, too, were used as trimmings for the interiors,and along the great open window-sashes, of coaches andcarriages, which increased in number as well made royalroads superseded the badly kept highways of the MiddleAges. These exaggerated uses of lace, etc., vexed Henry much. For all that, however, he was a good andpatient prince, anxious to see progress made with theindustries of his country. In 1607 he called the RoyalTapestry Manufactory into being. Previously, in 1598,he had had planted in the Bois de Boulogne fifteenthousand mulberry trees which had been brought fromMilan by one Balbani, and were put under the chargeof Olivier de Serres. At the chateau de Madrid close 202 II. LACES. at hand the king had established a silk-worm nursery ;but the austere disposition of Huguenot Sully, the. Fig. 94.—A dandy discarding his laces (after Abraham Bosse). kings first minister, did not harmonize with such pre-occupations. You want iron and soldiers, said he THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. 203 to his master, and not laces and silks to trick outfops ! In the face of absurd abuses through which certainnobles ruined themselves, Henry IV. felt compelledto issue a few sumptuary edicts intended to lessenthem. Louis XIII., with his religious rigour in strikingcontrast with Henry geniality, was much moresevere, and promulgated in 1629 the edict alreadyreferred to, under the title of Regulation as to Super-fluity in Costume. Draconic as this law appeared, itsapplication was not rigidly enforced, and people didnot dissemble their contempt for it. Many of AbrahamBosses engravings cheerfully caricature the supposedeffects of this law, and th
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