Identifier: embroiderylaceth00lefb (find matches)
Title: Embroidery and lace: their manufacture and history from the remotest antiquity to the present day. A handbook for amateurs, collectors and general readers
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Lefébure, Ernest, b. 1835 Cole, Alan S. (Alan Summerly), 1846-1934
Subjects: Lace and lace making Embroidery
Publisher: London, H. Grevel
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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Fig. 114.—Irish crochet lace (Point dIrlande). The little isle of Burano, writes an Italian author, is situated two leagues to the north-east of Venice;it is the poorest of the archipelago in the lagoon, andwithal the richest in beautiful and steady young girls.Lace-making, as one sees, retains its former place asthe occupation of the virtuose donne. Some admirablecopies of ancient laces made at the Burano school wereexhibited in Paris at the Exhibition in 1878. Austrias contribution to this Exhibition, and that of FROM LOUIS XV. TO THE PRESENT TIME. 249 Vienna in 1882, consisted of needlepoint laces, for themost part copies of old specimens in her Museum ofIndustrial Art. In Austria and Hungary there are
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Fig. 115.—Flounce of Limerick lace (Ireland), embroidery on net. many able hands, requiring but well-regulated encour-agement to evoke a more serious development of theirindustry. At Moscow, in Russia, a lace school produces capital !50 II. LACES. work, bearing the impress of a Russian taste whichleans to a Byzantine style of art. Lastly, we may mention Ireland, where for some

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