History of Lace by Mrs. Bury Palliser

8. Burato.--The word means a stiff cloth or canvas (_toille clere_ of

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Taglienti, 1527), on which the pattern is embroidered, reducing it to a kind of rude lace. One of the pattern-books[180] is devoted exclusively to the teaching of this point. [Illustration: Fig. 24. PUNTO A MAGLIA (Lacis)] The needle-made laces fabricated at Burano will be noticed later.

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