History of Lace

by Mrs. Bury Palliser

Fig. 24.

Punto a Maglia (Lacis)

The needle-made laces fabricated at Burano will be noticed later.

9. Punto tirato—Drawn work.[^[181]] Fig. 25 is a lace ground made by drawing the threads of muslin (fili tirati).[^[182]] The present specimen is simple in design, but some are very complicated and beautiful.

The ordinance of Colbert must have inflicted a serious injury on the Venice lace trade, which, says Daru, "occupoit la population de la capitale." In Britannia Languens, a discourse upon trade, London, 1680,[^[183]] it is said that the laces commonly called Points de Venise now come mostly from France, and amount to a vast sum yearly.

Savary, speaking of the thread laces termed Venice point in the early part of the eighteenth century,[^[184]] says, "The French no longer purchase these articles, having established themselves manufactures which rival those of the Adriatic."

Fig. 25.

Punto Tirato (Drawn Lace).