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Title: History of lace
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Palliser, Bury, Mrs., 1805-1878 Jourdain, Margaret Dryden, Alice
Subjects: Lace and lace making
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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G. W. A. Eliz., 43 British Traveller. 1784. to 44. ^^ Haliwell gives compas as a 1578-79. New Years Gifts. Baroness â circle; Anglo-Norman. Shandowes. A vail of black net- ^^ Partlet, a small ruff or neck- work flourished with flowers of silver band. and a small bone-lace.^âNichols. ^^ Eidem pro 4 pecde opera Eliet ^^ Encyclopoedia Britannica. Art. bon florat in forma oper sciss ad Costume. Sixteenth Century. 298 HISTORY OF LACE fitted closely to the figure, with long skirts open in front todisplay the underdress ; and were made low and cut squareabout the neck. Sometimes, however, the dresses w^ere wornhigh with short waists and a small falling collar. Somewhatlater, when the dresses were made open at the girdle, apartletâa kind of habit-shirtâwas worn beneath them, andcarried to the throat.^^ Entries of lace in the wardrobe accounts are, however^few and inconsiderable until the reign of Queen Elizabeth. Encyclopcedia BHtannica. Art. Costume. Sixteenth century Plate LXXVIII.
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Marie de Lorraine, 1515-1560. Daughter of Due de Guise, married James V. OF Scotland, 1538. This picture was probably painted before she left France, by an unknown French artist. National Portrait Gallery. Photo by Walker and Cockerell. To face page 298. 299 CHAPTER XXIII. QUEEN ELIZABETH. By land and sea a Virgin Queen I.reign,And spurn to dust both Antichrist and Spain.-âOld Masque.. Tell me, Dorinda, why so gay ? Why such embroidery, fringe and lace ?Can any dresses find a wayTo stop the approaches of decay And mend a ruined face ? âLord Dorset. Up to the present time our mention of lace, both in the-Statutes and the Eoyal Wardrobe Accounts, has been butscanty. Suddenly, in the days of the Virgin Queen^both the Privy Expenses and the Inventories of NewYears Gifts overflow with notices of passaments, drawn-work, cut-work, crown lace,^ bone lace for ruffs, Spanishchain, byas,^ parchment, hollow,^ billament/ and diamond ^ Crown laceâso called from thepattern being worked on a su

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