Lace was named after him very quickly. In "The Way of the World", a play of 1700 by Congreve, a lady is threatening her maid with reducing her to poverty, trying to sell rubbish: "...a yard of yellow Colberteen...an old gnawed mask, two rows of pins and a child's fiddle, a glass necklace with the beads broken..." Act 5 scene 1. The edition I have has a footnote: "A French imitiation of Italian lace, of which the manufacture was encouraged by Colbert".
Another person connected with lace, this time a machine, is Rachel. To quote Pat Earnshaw, in "Lace and Lace Machines" Batsford 1986 ISBN 0 7134 46846, p.39 "The adoption of the name Raschel is ascribed to the French trageienne Elisabeth Felix,(1820-58), known as Rachel, who in the 1840s wore and popularized warp-knit shawls and pelerines of black or natural silk which were then very beautiful and the height of fashion" [email protected] - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
