1587.
Madame de Puissieux died in 1677, at the age of eighty.
Venice points are not mentioned by name till the ordinance of 1654. See Greek Islands.
Hudibras.
Italy we believe to have furnished her own thread. "Fine white or nun's thread is made by the Augustine nuns of Crema, twisted after the same manner as the silk of Bolonia," writes Skippin, 1651.