Width, 8 in. Photo by the Burano School.
Plate VII.
Heraldic (carnival lace), was made in Italy. This appears to be a specimen, though the archaic pattern points to a German origin. The réseau is twisted and knotted. Circ. 1700. The Arms are those of a Bishop.
Photo by A. Dryden from private collection.
To face page 32.
By the twisting and crossing of these threads the ground of the lace is formed. The pattern or figure, technically called "gimp," is made by interweaving a thread much thicker than that forming the groundwork, according to the design pricked out on the parchment.[[101]] Such has been the pillow and the method of using it, with but slight variation, for more than three centuries.
To avoid repetition, we propose giving a separate history of the manufacture in each country; but in order to furnish some general notion of the relative ages of lace, it may be as well to enumerate the kinds most in use when Colbert, by his establishment of the Points de France, in 1665, caused a general development of the lace manufacture throughout Europe.
The laces known at that period were:—
1. Point.—Principally made at Venice, Genoa, Brussels, and in Spain.