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Title: History of lace
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Palliser, Bury, Mrs., 1805-1878 Jourdain, Margaret Dryden, Alice
Subjects: Lace and lace making
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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To fare page 118. BRUSSELS 119 to break, so tine is it as almost to escape the sight. Thefeel of the thread as it passes through the fingers is thesurest guide. The thread-spinner closely examines everyinch drawn from her distaff, and when any inequality occursstops her wheel to repair the mischief. Every artificialhelp is given to the eye. A background of dark paper isplaced to throw out the thread, and the room so arranged asto admit one single ray of light upon the work. The life ofa Flemish thread-spinner is unhealthy, and her work requiresthe greatest skill; her wages are therefore proportionably high.It is the fineness of the thread which renders the realBrussels ground (vrai reseau, called in Flanders, droschel )so costly.^^ The difiiculty of procuring this fine threadat any cost prevented the art being established in othercountries. We all know how, during the last fifty yearsof the bygone century, a mania existed in the UnitedKingdom for improving all sorts of manufactures. T

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