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Alençon appear apron Argentan autres blonde bobbin bone lace bride Brussels lace century cloth collar Coloured couppé court cutwork d'Angleterre d'or dames daughter dentelle deux dress Duchesse edged Eliz Elizabeth embroidery England English fabric fait falling band fashion finest Flanders Flanders lace flowers French garnis Genoa gold and silver ground guipure Henry Honiton inventory King l'Emp lace manufacture lace trade lace-makers lace-workers ladies lappets Lille linen livres Louis Louis XIV Madame Madame du Barry Malines manchettes Mary Mechlin mention Mercure Galant needle needlework ouvrages pair Paris passement patterns petit pillow pillow lace plates point coupé Point d'Alençon Point d'Espagne Point de France Princess punti purle Queen reign réseau rich royal ruffles ruffs says shirt silk smocks sorte Spain Spanish specimens stitches thread lace trimmed Valenciennes Venetian Venice Vinciolo Wardrobe Accounts wear women worn writes wrought yards
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Page 318 - twould a saint provoke," (Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke ;} " No, let a charming chintz and Brussels lace Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face : One would not, sure, be frightful when one's dead — And — Betty — give this cheek a little red.
Page 321 - Of sounding an alarm assaults these doors Till the street rings ; no stationary steeds Cough their own knell, while, heedless of the sound, The silent circle fan themselves, and quake : But here the needle plies its busy task, The pattern grows, the well-depicted...
Page 1 - Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to herself, have they not sped ? have they not divided the prey ; to every man a damsel or two ; to Sisera a prey of divers colours, a prey of divers colours of needlework, of divers colours of needlework on both sides, meet for the necks of them that take the spoil...
Page 319 - When the ladies wore lace trimmings to their clothes, he expressed his contempt of the reigning fashion in these terms: "A Brussels trimming is like bread sauce (said he), it takes away the glow of colour from the gown, and gives you nothing instead of it; but sauce was invented to heighten the flavour of our food, and trimming is an ornament to the manteau, or it is nothing. Learn...
Page 293 - Garden. And in the Privy-garden saw the finest smocks and linnen petticoats of my Lady Castlemaine's, laced with rich lace at the bottom, that ever I saw ; and did me good to look at them.
Page 92 - ... playhouses; upon the benches sit about two hundred children spinning, and in the box in the middle of the room sits the grand mistress with a long white wand in her hand. If she...
Page 348 - Devon ; and that it was named bone-lace " because first made with bone bobbins," adding, " the use thereof is modern in England, not exceeding the middle of the reign of Queen Elizabeth." He defends its use, " let it not be condemned for a superfluous wearing, because it doth neither hide nor heat, seeing it doth adorn ; " urging, " it stands the state in nothing, not expensive of bullion like other lace, costing nothing save a little thread descanted by art and industry ;" it employs children and...
Page 316 - We sacrifice to dress, till household joys And comforts cease. Dress drains our cellar dry And keeps our larder lean ; puts out our fires ; And introduces hunger, frost, and woe, Where peace and hospitality might reign.
Page 306 - ... sexes meet, if the men are discoursing upon any general subject, the ladies never think it their business to partake in what passes, but in a separate club entertain each other with the price and choice of lace and silk, and what dresses they liked or disapproved at the church or the playhouse. And when you are among yourselves, how naturally after the first compliments do you apply your hands...
Page 321 - The pattern grows, the well-depicted flower, Wrought patiently into the snowy lawn, Unfolds its bosom; buds, and leaves, and sprigs, And curling tendrils, gracefully disposed, Follow the nimble finger of the fair; A wreath, that cannot fade, of flowers that blow With most success when all besides decay.