This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 Excerpt: ... Schwartzenburg, 1534. It is printed in red, and the patterns, mostly borders, are of delicate and elegant design. (Figs. 109 and 110, and in Appendix.) Secondly comes one of later date, published by Sigismund Latomus, at Frankfort-on-the-Main, 1605; and lastly, that of "Metrepiere Quinty, demorat dempre leglie de iii ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 Excerpt: ... Schwartzenburg, 1534. It is printed in red, and the patterns, mostly borders, are of delicate and elegant design. (Figs. 109 and 110, and in Appendix.) Secondly comes one of later date, published by Sigismund Latomus, at Frankfort-on-the-Main, 1605; and lastly, that of "Metrepiere Quinty, demorat dempre leglie de iii roies," a culoge (Cologne), 1527. The earliest dated pattern-book known. In Austria, writes Peuchet, "les dentelles de soie et de fil ne sont pas moins bien travaillees." Many of the Protestant lace-workers took refuge in the cities of Freyburg and Altenburg. The modern laces of Bohemia are tasteless in design. The fabric is of early date. "The Bohemian women," writes Moryson, "delight in black cloth with lace of light colours." In the beginning of the present century, upwards of 60,000 people, men, women, and children, were occupied in the Bohemian Erzegebirge alone in lace-making. Since the introduction of the bobbin-net machine into Austria, 1831, the number has decreased. There are now scarcely 8,000 employed in the common laces, and about 4,000 on Valenciennes and points.35 The Countess Nako and Mr. Artaria, both of Vienna, possess tine collections of laces. SWITZERLAND. "Dans un vallon fort bien nomme Travers, S'eleve un mont, vrai sejour des hivers." Voltaire. In 1572, one Symphorien Thelusson, a merchant of Lyons, having escaped from the massacre of St. Bartholomew, concealed himself in a bale of goods, in which he reached Geneva, and was hospitably received by the inhabitants. When after the lapse of near a hundred and twenty years crowds of French emigrants arrived in the city, driven from their homes on the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, a descendant of this same Thelusson took a...
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