Plate XXIII.
Italian. Old Peasant Laces, Bobbin made.—Actual size.
Plate XXIV.
Italian. Modern Peasant Bobbin Lace.—Made at the School at Asolo near Bassano, founded by Browning. Width about 4 in.
Photo by A. Dryden.
To face page 80.
At Messina, embroidered net (lacis) was made, and bobbin-laces and the antique Sicilian drawn-work are now copied in the women's prison there. Torchon, a lace which is also made in Sicily, has no design worked upon the parchment. The peasant follows the dictates of her fancy, and forms combinations of webs and nets by skipping the holes pricked at regular intervals over the strip of parchment sewed upon the cushion or ballon.[[249]]