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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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origin may be identified.Sometimes they have been considered French, sometimesFlemish, and sometimes Italian. (See the specimens of tape-lace in the (^atalogue of the lace in the Victoria and AlbertMuseum, p. 49, by A. S. Cole.) (Plate XXXVIII.) BRUSSELS (IJIIABANT). •• Move subtile web Arachne cannot spin.—Spenser. * From IJsle ( came to Brussels, where most of the fine laces are made yousee worn in England.—Lord Chesterfield, 1741. At what period the manufacture of Brussels lace commencedwe are ignorant; but, judging from the earlier patterns, itmay be placed at the beginning of the sixteenth century.The ancient churches of Brabant possess, it is said, manyprecious specimens, the gifts of munificent princes who haveat all periods shown a predilection for Brussels lace, and inevery way promoted its manufacture. In usage it is termed • These dogs were of large size, and They also conveyed tobacco. Tlieable to carry from 22 to 26 lbs. Swiss dogs smuggle watches. Plate XXXVII.
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Brussels. Point dAngleterre a Brides. Crown of a Cap.—Last half of seventeenth century. The property of Mr. Arthur Blackborne. Plate XXXVIII.

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