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| Gold and silver laces |
The history of Gold lace is interesting, as illustrating the oldest form of the
lacemaker's art. From the days of Egytpt and Rome down to medieval
Venice, Italy and Spain, gold and silver gilt wire were used in making this
kind of lace.
The jews in Spain were accomplished workers in this art, and in Sweden
and Russia, gold lace was the first lace made, early the Fifteenth Century.
Very simple narrow trimmings were made in gold and silver threads. Later
developed into rich laces decorating Monasteries and rich merchants.
Metallic lace was used on fur coats, edgings of curtains etc.
Bobbin lacemaking spread quickly and the laces became an integral part of
Russian Folk art in the Seventeenth Century.
In France gold lacemaking was a properous manufacture at Aurrillac and
Arras, at which latter place, it flourished up to the end of the Eighteenth
Century.
Plaited laces, pillow laces of simple geometrical design, often made with
gold and silver thread, took place of the Italian knotted laces of the
Sixteenth Century.
Those produced at Genoa and Spain were the best, chiefly for church uses.
(Bibliography: "Lace its origin and History")
lacemaker's art. From the days of Egytpt and Rome down to medieval
Venice, Italy and Spain, gold and silver gilt wire were used in making this
kind of lace.
The jews in Spain were accomplished workers in this art, and in Sweden
and Russia, gold lace was the first lace made, early the Fifteenth Century.
Very simple narrow trimmings were made in gold and silver threads. Later
developed into rich laces decorating Monasteries and rich merchants.
Metallic lace was used on fur coats, edgings of curtains etc.
Bobbin lacemaking spread quickly and the laces became an integral part of
Russian Folk art in the Seventeenth Century.
In France gold lacemaking was a properous manufacture at Aurrillac and
Arras, at which latter place, it flourished up to the end of the Eighteenth
Century.
Plaited laces, pillow laces of simple geometrical design, often made with
gold and silver thread, took place of the Italian knotted laces of the
Sixteenth Century.
Those produced at Genoa and Spain were the best, chiefly for church uses.
(Bibliography: "Lace its origin and History")
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