Memorie Storiche di Santa Margherita. Genoese pillow-laces are not made with the réseau, but joined by bars. Of Milan lace it is said, "It resembles Genoese pillow-lace in having the same scrolls and flowers formed by a ribbon in close stitch, with a mesh or tulle ground, whereas the Genoese lace is held together by bars."—C. di Brazza, Old and New Lace in Italy (1893).
Lefébure writes, "A version of these Milanese laces has been produced by using tape for the scroll forms and flowers, and filling in the open portions between the tapes by needlework stitches." The C. di Brazza calls similar lace Punto di Rapallo or Liguria, a lace formed by a ribbon or braid of close lace following the outline of the design with fancy gauze stitches made by knotting with a crochet needle. The special characteristic of this lace is that the braid is constantly thrown over what has gone before. The design is connected by brides. A modification, where the braid is very fine and narrow, and the turnings extremely complicated, and enriched by no fancy stitches between, is Punto a Vermicelli.—Old and New Lace in Italy.
Communicated by Sig. Gio. Tessada, Junr., of Genoa.
Gandolfi, Considerazioni Agrario.
A small borgo, about an hour's drive from Savona, on the road leading to Genoa.