Embroidery and lace: their manufacture and history from the remotest antiquity to the present dayA handbook for amateurs, collectors and general readers . Fig. 131.—Milanese pillow lace with mesh ground. off the curved and scrolled devices. As in the Vene-tian points, eagles, armorial bearings, and crowns werefrequently intermingled with them. Unfortunately the taste for grounds of small meshescarried all before it in the eighteenth century; andalthough characteristic scrolls and flowers were stillused in patterns, they were not so effective in contrastwith the meshed grounds (figs. 131 and 13
Embroidery and lace: their manufacture and history from the remotest antiquity to the present dayA handbook for amateurs, collectors and general readers . Fig. 131.—Milanese pillow lace with mesh ground. off the curved and scrolled devices. As in the Vene-tian points, eagles, armorial bearings, and crowns werefrequently intermingled with them. Unfortunately the taste for grounds of small meshescarried all before it in the eighteenth century; andalthough characteristic scrolls and flowers were stillused in patterns, they were not so effective in contrastwith the meshed grounds (figs. 131 and 132) as theyhad been with the bars or tyes of the guipures. Genoa 19 290 II. LACES. imitated Milan ; and Venice herself did the same inrespect of those of her pillow laces which were madein the island of Palestrina and Chioggia. A distinc-tiveness, however, belongs to the Points de Milan as aclass of pillow-made laces.* A version of these Milanese laces has been producedby using tape for the scroll forms and flowers, and fillingin the open portions, between the tapes, with needle-point V • ?,- -?i-^-~-!rr~-- -??? ?????•? %|,--:y/--;;---^----^-^:i(j Fig. 132.—Milanese pillow lace with mesh ground, eighteenth century(the property of Madame Franck). Belgium, as already stated, was the earliest of lace-making countries to free herself from Italian influencein the matters of make and pattern, and to strike outan independent path. The development of the Pointde Flandres about the period of Louis XIII. has beensketched. The style of its patterns was flowery andrich, somewhat heavy in detail, of very flat work(fig. 126), notable for delicate veinings composed of * This industry is still kept up round about the little town of Cantuin the province of Milan. FROM LOUIS XV. TO THE PRESENT TIME. 29I pinholes to lighten with happy effect the close whitesurfaces. Comparatively primitive as this style is, itnevertheless contains the germs of the later and variedproductions we
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