Lace Making in Spain and Portugal, Part II
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Second part of an article on the history of lace making in Spain and Portugal, from The Connoisseur. It covers sumptuary laws and lace imports, Spanish pillow guipure, blonde and gold and silver lace, and the centres of production in Catalonia, La Mancha and elsewhere. The Portuguese section covers court use of lace, a 1590 lace panel of Judith and Holofernes, and modern pillow lace schools at Peniche and other towns. Illustrated with plates of a Spanish blonde, seventeenth-century needle-point lace on parchment patterns, and modern Peniche lace.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1904
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 4
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