Brooklyn Museum Quarterly . Bobbin lace. Punto in Aria type showing Gothic tendencies. Early 16th cen-tury. Lent by Miss R. A. Polhemus. 187. Needlepoint (punto in aria). Flowers and ornaments. Venetian. 16th by Mrs. W. H. Crittenden. A loving appreciation of punto in aria is expressed byElisa Ricci in her w^ork Old Italian Lace. The latter half of the sixteenth century saw the in-vasion of design by a fanciful spirit, which sought inspira-tion in all beautiful objects by which Venetian women weresurrounded. Aided sometimes by embroidery, lace wasmade to reproduce the pomegranates
Brooklyn Museum Quarterly . Bobbin lace. Punto in Aria type showing Gothic tendencies. Early 16th cen-tury. Lent by Miss R. A. Polhemus. 187. Needlepoint (punto in aria). Flowers and ornaments. Venetian. 16th by Mrs. W. H. Crittenden. A loving appreciation of punto in aria is expressed byElisa Ricci in her w^ork Old Italian Lace. The latter half of the sixteenth century saw the in-vasion of design by a fanciful spirit, which sought inspira-tion in all beautiful objects by which Venetian women weresurrounded. Aided sometimes by embroidery, lace wasmade to reproduce the pomegranates and artichokes properto brocades and cut velvets, the friezes of carved or paintedchests, filigree, wrought iron, and carved ivories. With un-erring precision the needle traces designs which repudiatinggeometric conventions delight in scrolls, branches, leaves,flowers, fruits, little birds and human figures. Sometimesthe lace makers found inspiration in such things as branches 188 of coral and seaweed and the spiral of shells and other ma-rine objects, though they did not fall into slavish were guided by their own sure
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