Mém., t. xiv., p. 286.
Signore Tessada has in his possession a pair of gold lappets of very beautiful design, made at Genoa about the year 1700.
Letters from Italy. 1770.
Cavasco. Statistique de Gênes. 1840.
The bobbins appear to have been made in Italy of various materials. We have Merletti a fusi, in which case they are of wood. The Sforza inventory gives a doii fuxi, "two bobbins," then a ossi, "of bone," and, lastly, a piombini; and it is very certain that lead was used for bobbins in Italy. See Parasole (1600).