In message <[email protected]>, Tamara P
Duvall <[email protected]> writes
About 1469, they are described and quoted bobbin and needle lace on an
inventory ordered for the wedding of Isabel I Castilla and Fernando I
Aragón also known as The Catholics.
When this thread started I wondered about whether Spain was in fact
earlier, particularly with recent TV programmes (may have been a Time
Team special) talking about the cultural aspects of the Moors that were
kept, even if Isabel and Fernando did their best to rid the country of
the people. I also seem to remember somewhere reading about mantillas
being worn in this period - and Catherine wearing them when she came to
England. Were the early mantillas lace?
Le Pompe is middle of 16th century (second edition of the first book
was published in 1559. Can't remember the date of the first edition).
Also consider when printing of books came in. If the printing process
was still fairly new, it would be used for important texts that were
considered by The Church to be appropriate (think of the problems
Galileo etc had with them!) for the masses to read, not lace pattern
books to the extent that we now have, say, knitting patterns available.
The lacemakers then were not rich, and probably couldn't read, so why
make books available?
--
Jane Partridge
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