38 HISTORY 01’ LACE. 4. Punto a fogliami. 12 —See “ Venice.” b. Punto a gropo, or gropari. 13 —Groppo, or gruppo, signifies a knot, or tie, and in this lace the threads are knotted together, like the fringes of the Genoese macrame. 14 After this manner is made the trimming to the linen scarfs or cloths which the Loman peasants wear folded square over the head, and hanging down the back (Fig. 18). 6. Punto a maglia c modano of the Tuscans (Fig. 19). This w T as much used for the Punto a maglia. Lacis. hangings of beds, and those curtains, placed across the windows, called “ stores ” by the French, by the Italians, “ stuora.” 16 12 Given in “II Monte,” circa 1550, but described earlier by Firenzuola. See “ Florence.” 13 Tuglienti (1530) lias “groppi,” “ raoreschi,” and “ arabeschiand “ II Specchio ” (1548) “ ponti gropposi.” See also the Sforza Inventory, 1193. 14 See “Genoa.” 15 Taglienti (1530) gives, “a ma- gliata,” Para sole (1600) “lavori di ma glia.” 16 “ Punti a stuora” occur in “II Specchio” (1548), “I Frutti ” (1564), and in the “Vera Perfettione” (1591)’ The word “stuora,” modem “ stuojn,” means also a mat of plaited rushes, which some of these interlaced patterns may be intended to imitate.