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HISTORY OR LACE.

was named by the loyal manufacturers “ Kegency point.” It wasa durable and handsome lace. (Fig. 131.)

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Towards the year 1830, insertions found their way to thepublic taste (Fig. 132).

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The exhibition of 1851 gave a sudden impulse to the traders,and from that period the lace industry rapidly developed. Atthis time were introduced the Maltese guipures and the “ plaited ”laces, a variety grafted on the old Maltese (Fig. 133). Fiveyears later appears the first specimen of the raised plait, now sothoroughly established in the market.