The Birth of Lace
XCE upon a time. long, long: ago. a dashing Venetian sailor laddie brought to the bright - eyed girl of Southern Italy who had won his heart, a pretty bunch of lacy coralline weed, sometimes called mermaid's lace. The jnaiden smiled on him as sho took the gift, and while he sat whispering to her all the delightful things that fairy stories say that lovers do whisper, she idly twined the dainty flower in and out the meshes of a snowy white new finishing net. Soon she noticed that the net was witchmglv pretty, with its flower-sprigged pattern of coralline floxvers. When her wedding day came near, tradition tells us that this industrious maiden sat her down and wove a wondrous design in white thread ... a design of fairy-like detail, through which was traced in delicate fashion the likeness of coralline flowers. One may still purchase coralline lace of finest Venetian point, and it is quite believable that the charming love token of the sailor lad of romantic Venice was the means of giving to the world the graceful flowing lace designs that superseded the geometric patterns that till that time were Um only ones known.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 98, 16 July 1927, Page 17
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199The Birth of Lace Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 98, 16 July 1927, Page 17
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