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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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ilk, and itslow price, l)ut its grounds are coarse, and the patterns wantrelief and solidity, and the bobbins are more often twistedin making the ground, which deprives it of its elasticity.Grammont makes no small pieces, \mt shawls, dresses, etc.,principally for the American market. The Industrie dentelliere of East Flanders is now mostnourishing. In 1869 it 1)oasted 200 fabrics directed by thelaity, and 450 schools under the superintendence of the nuns.Even in the poor-houses (hospices) every woman capable ofusing a bobbin passes her day in lace-making. HAINAULT. The laces of Mons and those once known as les figuresde Chimay both in the early part of the eighteenth centuryenjoyed a considerable reputation. Mrs. Palliser, on visiting ^^ Eobinson Crusoe, when at Lisbon. * Answer to Si)-John Sinclair, by sends some Flanders lace of a good Mr. H. Schoiilthem, concerning the value as a present to the wife and manufactures of Ghent. 1815.daughter of his partner in the Brazils. Plate XLII.
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