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28 HISTORY OF LACE. mcnt of' the lace manufacture throughout Europe. Acccordiug to M. Aubry, the laces known at that period were :— 1. l'oint or needle-made lace.—Principally made at Venice, Brussels, and in Spain. 2. Bisette.—A narrow, coarse, indented thread pillow lace of three qualities, made in the environs of Paris 24 by the peasant- women, principally for their own use. Though proverbially of little value: “ Ce n’est que de la bisette,” 25 it formed an article of traffic with the mercers and lingeres of the day. 3. Campane. 26 —A white, narrow, fine, indented thread pillow edging, 27 used to sew upon other laces, 28 either to widen them or to replace a worn-out picot or pearl. 4. Gueuse.—A thread lace, which owed to its simplicity the name it bore. The ground was network (a reseau), the flowers a loose, thick thread, worked in on a pillow, what is now called “ torchon.” Gueuse was formerly an article of extensive con- 24 At Gisors, Saint-Denis, Montmo rency, and Villiers-le-Bel. — Savary, Grand Viet, du Commerce, 1720. Cotgrave gives, “ Bisette. A plate (of gold, silver, or copper) wherewith some kinds of stuffes are stripped.” Oudin, “ Feuille ou paillette d’or ou d’argent.” As “ terme de passementier” it frequently occurs in old inventories. 1545. “ 55 sols pour une once hizette d’argent pour mectro a des colletz.”—Ac counts of Madame Marguerite de France. Bib. Nat. 1579. “ Petite bizette d’or findentellez des deux costez pour servir a des manohes de satin cramoisy ” of Catherine de Medicis.— TrCsorerie de la royne mere du roy. Arch. Nat. K. K. 115. In the Cliartley Inv. 15SG, of Mary Stuart, is mentioned, “Un plotton de bisette noire,” 25 “ Diet, de l’Acade'mie.” 26 Campane, from “ sonnette, clochette, memo grelot.” “ Les festons qu’on met aux etoffes et aux dentelles.”—Oudin. 27 Like bizette, a “ termo do passe mentier.” Campane lace was also mado of gold, and of coloured silks, for trimming mantles, scarfs, &c. We find, in the Great Wardrobe Accounts of George I., 1714, an entry of “Gold Campague buttons.” Evelyn, in his “Fop’s Dictionary,” 1G90, gives, “ Campane, a kind of narrow, pricked lace; ” and in the “ Ladies’ Dictionary,” 1G94, it is de scribed as “ a kind of narrow lace, picked or scalloped.” In the Great Wardrobe Account of William III., 1G88-9, we have, “lepoynt campanie tamire.” 28 In the last century it was much the fashion to trim the scalloped edges of a broader lace with a narrower, which was called “ campaner.” 1720. “ Une garniture de teste a trois pieces de dentelle d’Angleterre a raiseau, garni autour d’une campane a dents.”— Inv. de la Vuchesse de Bourbon. 1741. “ Une paire de munches a trois rangs do Malinesh raizeau campanee.”— Inv. de deces de Mademoiselle Marie Anne de Bourbon de Clermont. Arch. Nat. X. 11,071. (Daughter of Made moiselle de Nantes and Louis Duke de Bourbon.) “ Une coiififuro de Malines a raizeau a deux pieces campanee.”—Bad. In the lace-bills of Madamo du Barry, preserved in the Bib. Nat., are various entries of “Angleterro et point a l’ai- guille, campanee des deux cotes,” for ruffles, camisoles, &c.