Enjoying Literature: Signature Edition
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Keticella. CHAPTER II. OF ITALIAN NEEDLE LACE. In point of design Italian Lace may be classed under four styles: the Mediaeval, the Geometrical, the Renaissance, and the Rococo. Such as belongs to the two fi...
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Keticella. CHAPTER II. OF ITALIAN NEEDLE LACE. In point of design Italian Lace may be classed under four styles: the Mediaeval, the Geometrical, the Renaissance, and the Rococo. Such as belongs to the two first was for the most part worked out of linen and often combined with embroidery. The material spun with the old-world distaff, as still to be seen in the country districts in Italy, and woven under no great pressure of haste on hand-looms in the convent or the cottage, was far superior to anything that can be now procured in purity and strength. It was unmixed with cotton, that cheaper substance which so detracts from the durability and quality of our modern linen manufactures. The specimens ofchurch and household linen preserved to the present day bear sufficient testimony to the good workmanship of the weaver and the excellence of his materials. The Lace included under the above-mentioned two earlier styles, namely, the Mediaeval and the Geometrical, are Drawn-work, Cut-work, Reticella or so-called Greek Lace, and Lacis or Darned netting. They were produced chiefly during the sixteenth century. The third or Renaissance style expressed itself in flowing patterns of scroll work, and in a conventional treatment of flowers and other objects. The Lace was worked entirely without a linen foundation. Of this description are all the most beautiful achievements of the Art in Italy during the seventeenth century, namely, the splendid Venetian and so-called Spanish-points. Lastly came the Rococo style, when boldness and beauty of design were sacrificed to complexity of detail, and when natural objects, and especially flowers, were represented with small regard to symmetry or unity of composition, but often also with marvellous skill and fidelity. The Lace produce...
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