VENICE. 41 VENICE. Mbs. Termagant. “ I’ll spoil your point de Yenise for you. Shadwell, Squire of Alsatia. “ Elle n’avoit point de mouclioir, Mais un riche et tres beau peignoir Des plus cliers de point de Yenise, En negligeance elle avoit mise.” , Les Combats, &c. 1663. To Venice belongs the invention of the two most perfect productions of the needle, “ point coupe, and the Venetian point in relief (Fig. 21). In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the making of the first was almost universal in every household, Fig. 22. Venetian puint. but its use had become so general as to render it a commercial speculation, and manufactories of it had been established in different countries. The richness of its Gothic patterns and tie delicacy of its workmanship rendered it specially ealcu atc( 01 the enrichment and adorning of linen. The “ punto in aria ” of the pattern books, worked on a parch ment pattern, and connected by brides, comprised an infinite