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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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neck-ruffs of very fine linen. We read how, in 1667, France had become the rival of Holland in the trade with Spain, Portugal and Italy; but she laid such high duties on foreign merchandise, the Dutch themselves set up manufactures of lace and other articles, and found a market for their produce even in France. A few years later, the revocation of the Edict of Nantes caused 4,000 lacemakers to leave the town of Aleneon alone. Many took refuge in Holland, where, says a writer of the day, they were treated like artists. Holland gamed more than she lost by Louis XIV. The French refugees founded a manufactory of that point lace. In the Census of 1571, giving the Roi qui ordonne l'exécution d'une sen-names of all strangers in the city of tence du maître de poste de Rouen, London, we find mention but of one portant confiscation des dentelles ve Dutchman, Richard Thomas, a worker nant d'Amsterdam.—Arch. Nat. Coll. of billament lace. Rondonneau. - In 1G89 appears an Arrest du -^ 1685. Plate LXVI.
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William, Prince of Orange, Father of William III., 1627-1650. School of Van Dyck. The collar is edged with Dutch lace. National Portrait Gallery. Photo by Walker and Coekerell. To face page 258, HOLLAND 259 Called dentelle a la Reine in the Orplian House at Amsterdam / A few years later, another Huguenot, Zacharie Chatelain, introduced into Holland the industry, at that time so important, of making gold and silver lace. The Dutch possessed one advantage over most other nations, especially over England, in her far-famed Haarlem thread, once considered the best adapted for lace in the world. No place bleaches flax, says a writer of the day, like the meer of Haarlem. Still the points of Holland made little noise in the world. The Dutch strenuously forbade the entry of all foreign lace, and what they did not consume themselves they exported to Italy, where the market was often deficient. Once alone in England we hear tell of a considerable parcel o fDutch lace seized between Deptford and London

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