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...lace is a form of embroidery in which typical techniques of needlelace are used to embellish drawn thread work. It was first used in 16th century Italy . Needlelace evolved from this when the lacemakers realized that they can do the same things without any supporting fabric. High quality reticella is done with thread almost as thin as sewing silk. Ruskin lace is in fact a near-modern form of...
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.... Pairs of bobbins are twisted or braided to form meshes (also called "ground") or woven to form solid shapes, depending on the type of lace made. Many styles of lace were made in the heyday of lacemaking (that stretched possibly between the 1500s-1700s) before machine-made lace became available. The advent of machine lace at first pushed lace-makers into more complicated designs (ones that...
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...and later in 1830 , ‘the humbler class of industrious females employ themselves in lace making’. It would appear that Eye was at the centre of a localised lace making industry for many years; the last lacemaker in the town died in 1914. Lace was not the only industry, however, and the County Directories, list the many trades and occupations of the people of Eye over the 18th and 19th centuries. They...
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...time consuming, but otherwise clearly inferior surrogate for "true" Lace such as bobbin lace , needle lace or netting . The first examples of crocheted lace try to reproduce the products of other lacemaking techniques as faithfully as possible. Later, the many possibilities and inherent beauty of crocheted lace were appreciated more. Today, in the age of machine-made lace, such discussions seem...
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...island began making lace with needles . The lace was soon exported across Europe, but decline began in the eighteenth century and the industry did not revive until 1872 , when a school of lacemaking was opened. Lacemaking on the island boomed again, but few now make lace in the traditional manner as it is extremely time-consuming and therefore expensive. Burano is also known for its small...
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...to the poor, and built hospitals, and thus became a symbol of Christian charity. She is the patron saint of hospitals, nurses, bakers, brides, countesses, dying children, exiles, homeless people, lacemakers, tertiaries and widows. Her feast day is 17 November (formerly 19 November ). She is best known for a legend which says that she was taking bread secretly to the poor, when her husband caught...
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...an old Woollen Mill on the river Exe and shortly afterwards moved his Lace manufactury to the Town, following the destruction of his machinery in Loughborough by former Luddites in the pay of the lacemakers of Nottingham The Factory turned the fortune of Tiverton once again, and it became an early Industrial centre in the South West. It gained a reputation as one of the 'rotten boroughs' targeted...
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...Coggeshall's economy in the first half of the 19th century centred around silk and velvet with over half of the population employed in its production. The town again found fame in Tambour Lace, a form of lacemaking introduced to the town by a Monsieur Drago and his daughters. Later, the Free Trade Act was passed, allowing duty-free imports into the country, flooding the market with cheaper French silk...
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The Lace-Maker by Caspar Netscher (1662) Oil on canvas, 33 x 27 cm. Wallace Collection, London Caspar (or Gaspar ) Netscher ( 1639 - 1684 ), German - Dutch portrait and genre painter...related to: [[Commons:Category:{{{1|Caspar Netscher}}}|{{{1|Caspar Netscher}}}]] This article incorporates text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica , which is in the public domain .
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...entirely given over to seafront tourism. Until the nineteenth century , women in Chioggia wore an outfit based on an apron which could be raised to serve as a veil . Chioggia is also known for lacemaking; like Pellestrina , but unlike Burano , this lace is made using bobbins . Chioggia served Carlo Goldoni as the setting of his play Le baruffe chiozzotte , one of the classics of Italian...
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