Fig. 8.
Grande Dantelle au point devant l'Aiguille.—(Montbéliard, 1598.)
It is in a pattern book, published at Montbéliard in 1598,[[86]] we first find designs for "dantelles." It contains twenty patterns, of all sizes, "bien petites, petites" (Figs. 9, 10, 11, 12), "moyennes, et grosses" (Fig. 8).
| Fig. 9. | Fig. 10. |
| Petite Dantelle.—(1598.) | Petite Dantelle.—(1598.) |
The word dentelle seems now in general use; but Vecellio, in his Corona, 1592, has "opere a mazette," pillow lace, and Mignerak first gives the novelty of "passements au fuzeau," pillow lace (Fig. 13), for which Vinciolo, in his edition of 1623, also furnishes patterns (Figs. 14 and 15); and Parasoli, 1616, gives designs for "merli a piombini" (Fig. 16).
| Fig. 11. | Fig. 12. |
| Petite Dantelle.—(1598.) | Petite Dantelle.—(1598.) |
In the inventory of Henrietta Maria, dated 1619,[[87]] appear a variety of laces, all qualified under the name of "passement"; and in that of the Maréchal La Motte, 1627, we find the term applied to every description of lace.
"Item, quatre paires de manchettes garnyes de passement, tant de Venise, Gennes, et de Malines."[[88]]
Lace consists of two parts, the ground and the pattern.