The English origin of the word lace owes something to the French lassis or lacis, but both are connected with the earlier Latin laqueus. ... (2) with bobbins, pins and a pillow or cushion, when the work is known as pillow lace ; and (3) by steam-driven machinery, when imitations of both needlepoint and pillow laces...
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Lace History 01 ... Article about: The Birthplace of Lace by Wim J. Lauriks, as published in LACE Magazine international #49 Spring 1999, ... It is also a unique way for a "maiden" to make an honest living, and as such, lacemaking as an industry on a larger scale is unprecedented and unique in women's history.
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History of Lace ... According to Anne Kraatz (Lace: History and Fashion) in the early 1500's the exquisite embroideries for which Venice was famous, were becoming ever and ever more open and less and less of the foundation fabric upon which it was worked remained in the finished pieces.
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The Middle-Ages is a period of history where little is known about the manufacture of lace. For firm evidence we have to look back to the fifteenth century when Charles the Fifth decreed that lace making was to be taught in the schools and convents of the Belgian provinces. ... TRABEL : The history of Lace...
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Lace, a brief History ... The history of the English word lace follows closely the development of the fabric in Italy. Before the sixteenth century, lace meant fringes and trimmings, and cord and tape lacings. The ancient usage is still continued in the "laces" of corsets, waists and shoes.
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An overview of lace through the ages ... A Short Overwiew over the History and Development ... Lace was developed in the 15th and 16th century from whitework (i.e. embroidery in white thread on white ground) where threads of the ground were either pulled out (drawnwork) or cut away from between the embroidered parts.
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European Discovery & the colonisation of Australia - a potted history of first contact with European mariners from 1606 ... Nineteenth Century Exploration of Australia - An Australian History Resource Created by Charles H. Smith & Jennifer Rakestraw...
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Sometimes abbreviated to SAY, this type of LACE is not referred to in the authorities, and it appears only rarely in the Dictionary Archive. It seems to have been NARROW, since it was offered for sale as PENNY BROAD (considerably less than ¼ INCH), which would suggest something similar ... Administrative and legal history...
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To improve matters, the Art Department, at Kensington, London, sent over Alan S Cole, C.B., a lace expert, to give illustrated lectures throughout Ireland. The Kenmare Lace School began at once to study design under competent masters and an art class was established. ... The History of Kenmare Lace...
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