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and silver embroidery of 6uck surpassing beauty that they arestill carefully preserved and publicly exhibited on fete days.One Francesca Bulgarini also instructed the schools in the makingof lace of every kind, especially the Venetian retic<‘lla. 0#

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Lace was made in many parts of Romagna. Besides theknotted lace already alluded to, 61 the peasant-women wore on

Fur. 28.

UnlinisheU drawu work.

their collerettes much lace of that large-flowered pattern andfancy ground found alike in Flanders and on the head-dresses ofthe Neapolitan and Calabrian peasants.

Specimens of pillow lace of the province of Urbino, lately sentto us from Italy, resemble in pattern and texture the fine close

80 She diet! in 1802.

61 Sec i>. 38.