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LACIS. 19 cated to the “ Tres-Chrestienne Heine de France et de Navarre, Marie de Mddicis,” and bears her cipher and arms, yet in the deco rated frontispiece is a cushion, with a piece of lacis in progress, the pattern a daisy looking at the sun, the favourite impresa of er predecessor, the divorced Marguerite, now, by royal ordinance, “ Marguerite Eeine, Duchesse de Yalois ” (Fig. 6). These pattern hooks being high in price and difficult to procure, teachers of the art caused the various patterns to be reproduced in “ sam cloths,” 26 as samplers were then termed, and young ladies worked diligently at their outwork, lacis, and rezeuil, 2 much as a dame-school child did her A B C in the country m ages of our own day. Proud mothers caused these chefs- J— to be framed and glazed; hence many have come down o us, chiefly of the seventeenth century, uninjured at the present time. (Coloured Plate I.) j n - ^ most important specimen of lacis was exhibited at the Art emational Exhibition of 1874, by Mrs. Hailstone, of Walton . ’ an f t ar frontal 14 feet by 4 feet, executed in point conte, fiftv ' n f; 11 ^ e ^^t scenes of the Passion of our Saviour, in all tn ], S1 r T / U !' eSl surr °uuded by Latin inscriptions. It is assumed e.of English workmanship of an early period. duce 6n USe< ^ ^° r a ^tar-cloths, bed-curtains, or coverlets, to pro- e a greater effect, it was the custom to alternate lacis with squares of plain linen:- “ An apron set with many a dice Of needlework sae rare, Wove by nae hand, as ye may guess, r Save that of Fairly fair.”—Ballad of Ilardyknute. These works formed the great delight of the ladies of the age. ea u Godard, in his poem on the Glove, 28 alludinn to the occupation, says “ Une femme gante'e ceuvre en tapisserie, En raizeaux deliez et toute lingerie Elle file—elle coud et fait passement De toutes lea fassons. . . .” trj w le ^ ol s me > in “ The Sch ° o1 Mis ‘ “ Autre seryyette de Cabes (Cadiz) ou- Stwinr.» v ° ,, ^ or ker Ways of yree d’or, d’argent sur fillez et borde'e Samplar- Sa mcloth, vulgarly, a d’or et de gris. 27 In th « U Autre serviette a Cabes de soye grise are spec' ° ^ ^ (Book collection) et verde a ouvrage de fillez bordee d’une within ensof rezeuil d’or, or network tressedeverdetgris.”—Inventory already aud co^ r “ aW ° rked “ wi th gold thread quoted. wrought^ Sllks ' were the richly 28 “Le Gan, de Jean Godard, Parisien.” Margaret of e Ctria 3 ^ * lez d ’ or ” of 1588 ‘ c 2