History of Lace by Mrs. Bury Palliser

4. Campane.[104]--A white, narrow, fine, thread pillow edging, used to sew

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upon other laces, either to widen them, or to replace a worn-out picot or pearl. Campane lace was also made of gold, and of coloured silks, for trimming mantles, scarfs, etc. We find, in the Great Wardrobe Accounts of George I., 1714,[105] an entry of "Gold Campagne buttons." Evelyn, in his "Fop's Dictionary," 1690, gives, "Campane, a kind of narrow, pricked lace;" and in the "Ladies' Dictionary," 1694, it is described as "a kind of narrow lace, picked or scalloped."[106] In the Great Wardrobe Account of William III., 1688-9, we have "le poynt campanie tæniæ."

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