There are many patterns for this work in Le Pompe di Minerva, 1642. Taglienti (1530) has desfilato among his punti.
Many other points are enumerated in the pattern-books, of which we know nothing, such as gasii (I Frutti, 1564), trezola (Ibid), rimessi (Vera Perfettione, 1591), opere a mazzette (Vecellio, 1591, and Lucretia Bomana, N.D.).
Tracts on Trade of the Seventeenth Century, published by MacCulloch, at the expense of Lord Monteagle. 1856.
Venice point forms a considerable item in the expenses of Charles II. and his brother James.
Venice noted "for needlework laces, called points."—Travels Thro' Italy and France, by J. Ray. 1738.