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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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nce of a bed, and afterwards in the Trionfo (1555), window curtains, toilet, etc., of straw- and passim. coloured laces, reticella, embroidered ■- Given in II Monte, circ. 1550, but netting, etc. ; the price asked was described by Firenzuola earlier. See 18,000 francs = ^6720. There was also Florence. much of the rose point, and a hand- 2^ See Chap. III., notes 28 and 30. kerchief bordered with beautiful flat 23 ToiledelaPale.—A pasteboard Venetian point of the same colour, about eight inches square, enclosed in forming part of a trousseau. 700 francs cambric or lace, used to cover the =^28.paten when laid over the cup. E 2 52 HISTORY OF LACE 6. Punto a gropo, or gropari.—Groppo, or gruppo, signifies a knot, or tie, and in this lace the threads are knotted together, like the fringes of the Genoese macrame. After this manner is made the trimming to the linen scarfs or cloths which the Roman peasants wear folded square over the head, and hanging down the back. (Fig. 22.) Fis. 22.
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Punto a Gropo (Knotted Point). 7. Punto a maglia quadra.—Lacis ; square nctting,^^ themodano of the Tuscans. (Fig. 24.) This Tuscan sort was not generally emljroidered ; thepattern consists in knitting the meshes together in different ^ Taglienti (1530) \i2JS, groj)^,more-schi, and araheschi; and II S^ecchio(1548), 2^07iti gropj^osi. See also theSforza Inventory, 1493. ^^ See Genoa. ^^ Taglienti (1530) gives a magliaia,Parasole (1600) lavori cJi maglia.

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