History of Lace

by Mrs. Bury Palliser

Punto a Gropo (Knotted Point).

7. Punto a maglia quadra.—Lacis; square netting,[^[178]] the modano of the Tuscans. (Fig. 24.)

Fig. 23.

Gros Point de Venise.—From the Collar of a Venetian Nobleman. Musée de Cluny, Paris. 16th century.

N.B.—This drawing makes the work and design appear heavier than it is in reality.

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This Tuscan sort was not generally embroidered; the pattern consists in knitting the meshes together in different shapes. It was much used for hangings of beds, and those curtains placed across the windows, called stores by the French, and by the Italians, stuora.[^[179]]

8. Burato.—The word means a stiff cloth or canvas (toille clere of Taglienti, 1527), on which the pattern is embroidered, reducing it to a kind of rude lace. One of the pattern-books[^[180]] is devoted exclusively to the teaching of this point.