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Title: History of lace
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Palliser, Bury, Mrs., 1805-1878 Dryden, Alice Jourdain, Margaret
Subjects: Lace and lace making -- History
Publisher: London : Sampson Low, Marston
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Wellesley College Library

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Valexciennes Lace cif Yi-itEs. and )\Ienin m West, Ghent and Alost in East, Flanders.When Peuchet wrote in the eighteenth century, he cites les-dentelles a Iinstar de Valenciennes of Courtrai as l)eing \\\favour, and generally sought after Itoth in England andFrance, while those of Bruges are merely alluded to aspassing for Mechlin. From this it may be inferred thetide had not then flowed so far north. The Valenciennesof Bruges, from its round ground, has never enjoyed a high ■■ Trcillc is tlie general term for the iiiore Valenciennes than all the other ground (rescaii) throughout Belgium countries united; upwards of 12 millions and the D(^p. du Nord. of francs (i;480,000).—Aubry. France alone buvs of )3elgium Plate XLI.
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JLANDERS (EAST) 133 reputation. In forniin^- tlie ground, the bol)bins are onlytwisted twice, while in th<jse of Ypres and Alo.st, the■operation is performed four and five times. The oftenerthe bobbins are twisted the clearer and more esteemed is theValenciennes. The guipure de Flandres made at Brugesin point plat is now in high repute, and has provedfrom its low price a formidable rival to Honiton, which itresembles, but the workmanship is coarser and inferior thanin the best Honiton. It is of a brilliant white, and composedof bobbin-made fiowers united V)y barettes or brides a plcot.In the TJIndustrie Dentelliere Beige (1860), it is stated thatWest Flanders has now 180 fabrics and 400 lace schools.Of these, 157 are the property of religious communities, andnumber upwards of 30,000 apprentices.^^ FLANDERS (EAST). No traveller has passed through the city of Ghent forthe last hundred years without descri))ing the Beguinage■and its lace school. The women, writes the author ofthe

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