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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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reA arious figures of the pattern; often, of the Golden Fleece, endure so manyagain, she unfastens them; and in dangers by land, so many at sea,this her amusement makes as much whilst the woman, remaining in herprofit as the man eEirns hj the sweat Brabantine home, prepares Phrygianof his brow; and no maiden ever fleeces by peaceful assiduity.—Jacobicomplains at even of the length of the Eychii Antiuerjpiensis JJrhiitm Bel-day. The issue is a fine web, open to gicarum Centuria. Antw. 1651. 1the air with many an aperture, which vol., 4to. Bib. Eoj-ale, Brussels,feeds the pride of the whole globe ; Alencon excepted. 112 HISTORY OF LACE threatening with punishment any who should suborn herworkpeople. Lace-makino; forms an abundant source of national wealthto Belgium, and enables the people of its superannuated citiesto support themselves, as it were, on female industry.^One-fourth of the whole population (150,000 women) weresaid to be thus enoaoed, in 1861. But a small number Fis:. 51.
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CAI i>f TiiK E.MlKllHli eilAKLl> \. (.MllsLf <Il- < 1:iiij.J This engraving is not accui-ately drawn. ITie spaces ronUiin birds and crosses, and not sprijjs. assemble in the ateliers ; the majority work at home. Thetrade now flourishes as in the most palmy days of theNetherlands. Lace forms a part of female education in Belgium. ^ It is said to destroy the eyesight. ^FcPherson, that they were generally I was told by a gentleman well almost blind before thirty years ofacquainted with Flanders, says age.—Historj/ of ((umiurcc, llSo. Fig. 52.

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