Identifier: historyoflac00pall (find matches)
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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EiiizABETH, Princess Palatine, Granddaughter op James I., 1618-1680.—Probably about 1638. By Gerard Hoiitborst. National Portrait Gallery. Photo by Walker and Cockerell. To face 2)acn 326. CHARLES 1 12/ course of time rose to £1,500/^ Falling bands of Flandersbone lace and cut-work appear constantly in tlie accounts.-^As the foreign materials are carefully specified (it was one ofthese articles, then a novelty, that Queen Anne of Denmark bought of the French Mann ), we may infer much of the Fig. 128.
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Falling Collar of the Seventeenth Century.—(After Abraham Bosse.) bobbin or bone lace to have been of home produce. As BenJonson says, Rich apparel has strong virtues. It is, headds, the birdlime of fools. There w^as, indeed, no articleof toilet at this period which w^as not encircled with lace—towels, sheets, shirts, caps, cushions, boots (Fig. 129), cuffs(Fig. 130)—and, as too often occurs in the case of excessiveluxury, when the bills came in money was wanting to ^^ In 1633, the bills having risen to561,500 a year, a project is made forreducing the charge for the Kings finelinen and bone lace, for his body,again to dGl,000 per annum, for whichsum it may be very well done.—State Papers, Chas. I. Vol. ccxxxiv.No. 83. ^^ Paid to Smith Wilkinson, for420 j^ards of good Flanders bone lacefor 12 day ruffes and 6 night ruffes cum cuffes eisdem, ^87 15s. For 6 falling bands made of goodbroad Flanders lace and Cuttworkswith cuffs of the same, dG52 16s.—Gt. W. A. Car. I. 6 = 1631. ;

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