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History of Lace by Mrs. Bury Palliser

2 by Mrs. Bury Palliser, Palliser, Bury, Mrs., 1805-1878, Dryden, Alice, 1866-1956, Jourdain, Margaret, 1876-1951

Chapter 15: 8. Burato.--The word means a stiff cloth or canvas (_toille clere_ of

Chapters

Chapter 1 Chapter 1
Chapter 2 CHAPTER I.
Chapter 3 2. Bisette.--A narrow, coarse thread pillow lace of three qualities, made
Chapter 4 3. Gueuse.--A thread lace, which owed to its simplicity {34}the name it
Chapter 5 4. Campane.[104]--A white, narrow, fine, thread pillow edging, used to sew
Chapter 6 5. Mignonette.[107]--A light, fine, pillow lace, called blonde de
Chapter 7 6. Point double, also called point de Paris and point des champs: point
Chapter 8 7. Valenciennes.--See Chapter XV.
Chapter 9 8. Mechlin.--All the laces of Flanders, with the exception of those of
Chapter 10 10. Guipure.
Chapter 11 1. Punto a reticella.[168]--Made either by drawing the threads of the
Chapter 12 4. Punto in aria.[171]--Worked on a parchment pattern, the flowers
Chapter 13 5. Punto tagliato a fogliami.[172]--The richest and most complicated of all
Chapter 14 7. Punto a maglia quadra.--Lacis; square netting,[178] the modano of the
Chapter 15 8. Burato.--The word means a stiff cloth or canvas (_toille clere_ of
Chapter 16 9. Punto tirato--Drawn work.[181] Fig. 25 is a lace ground {54}made by
Chapter 17 introduction of it into my humble parish in Scotland, but on inquiry I was
Chapter 18 5. Fonneuse (grondwerkes), is charged with the open work (jours) in the
Chapter 19 6. Jointeuse, or attacheuse (lashwerkes), unites the different sections of
Chapter 20 7. Striqueuse, or appliqueuse (strikes), is charged with the sewing
Chapter 21 introduction of bobbin net, the demand for blonde, on the contrary, had a
Chapter 22 1596. The fashion continued to the end of the eighteenth century.

Chapter 15: 8. Burato.--The word means a stiff cloth or canvas (_toille clere_ of

Taglienti, 1527), on which the pattern is embroidered, reducing it to a kind of rude lace. One of the pattern-books[180] is devoted exclusively to the teaching of this point. [Illustration: Fig. 24. PUNTO A MAGLIA (Lacis)] The needle-made laces fabricated at Burano will be noticed later.

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