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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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g a 1704. Bib. Nat. MSS. F. Fr. 14,294), paste-board shape, and rises to a great we find that the making of dentelles height above the head, frequently de bas prix, employed at Rouen, diminishing in size towards the top, Dieppe, Le Havre, and throughout the where it finishes in a circular form. Pays de Caux, the Bailliage of Caen, Two long lappets hang from either at Lyons. Le Puy, and other parts of side towards the back, composed often France, one quarter of the population of the finest lace. The bourgoins of all classes and ages from six to throughout Normandy are not alike. seventy years. These laces were all —Mrs. Stothards Tour in Normandy. made of Haarlem thread. See Hol- - This must have included Hontieur land.and other surrounding localities. The lace-makers of Havre, ^^Tites By a paper on the lace trade (Man. Reuchet, * work both in black and NORMANDY 21/ It was in the province of Normandy, as comprised in itsancient extent, that the lace trade made the most rapid Fig. 97.
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• Cauchoise.—From an engraving of the eighteenth century. increase in the eighteenth century. From Arras to St. white points, from 5 sous to 30 francs Much is transported to foreign coun- the ell. They are all employed by tries, even to the East Indies, the a certain number of dealers, who pur- Southern Seas, and the islands of chase the produce of their pillows. America. 2i8 HISTORY OF LACE Malo more than thirty centres of manufacture establishedthemselves, imitating with success the laces of Mechlin ; theguipures of Flanders ; the fond clair, or single ground, thencalled point de Bruxelles; point de Paris ; black threadlaces, and also those guipures enriched with gold and silver,so much esteemed for church ornament. The manufacturesof Havre, Honfleur, Bolbec, Eu, Fecamp, and Dieppe weremost thriving. They made double and single grounds,guipure, and a kind of thick Valenciennes, such as is stillmade in the little town of Honfleur and its environs.In 1692 the number of lace-makers

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