Laborde, Glossaire. Paris, 1853.
Statute 2 Hen. VI., c. x., 1423.
Taglienti (1530) among his punti gives Ciprioto (an embroidery stitch).
Description de Raguse (Bib. Nat. MSS., F.Fr. 10,772).
Points de Raguse—first mentioned in an Edict of January, 1654, by which the king raises for his own profit one quarter of the value of the "passems, dentelles, points coupez de Flandres, pointinars, points de Venise, de Raguse, de Gênes," etc. (Recueil des Lois Françaises). Again, the Ordinance of August, 1665, establishes the points de France, "en la manière des points qui se font à Venise, Gênes, Raguse, et autres pays étrangers," recited in the Arrêt of Oct. 12th, 1666.—De Lamare, Traité de la Police.