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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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hite thread in the country roundBayeux have all the suppleness and softness which contri-bute to the charm of Mechlin lace, to which they have a closeaffinity. BEETAGNE. No record of lace-making occurs in Bretagne, though prob-ably the Normandy manufacturers extended westward alongthe coast. At all events, the wearing of it was early adopted. ^^ LIndustrie Francaise depuis la Seine-Inferieure .... 10,000 Hevohition de Fevrier et VExposition de 1848, par M. A. Audiganne. 60,000 M. Aubry thus divides the lace- The women earn from 50 sous to,25 makers of Normandy :— sous a day, an improvement on the Department of Calvados— wages of the last century, which, in Arrondissement of Caen . . 25,000 the time of Arthur Young, seldom Arr. of Ba^-eux 15,000 amounted to 24 sous. Arr. of Pont-lEveque, Falaise,* Their products are estimated at from and Lisieux 10,000 8 to 10 millions of francs (Je320,000 to Departments of La Manche and ^£400,000), Falaise, dentelles facon de Dieppe.—Peuchet. o
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To face page 228. NORMANDY 229 Embroidered tulle or point de^^prit was made in Brittanyas in Denmark, and around Genoa, where its production stillcontinues. Embroidered muslins with open-work lacestitches were also made in Brittany during the eighteenthcentury, and called Broderie des Indes, after the Indianmuslin scarfs that were brought to Europe at that date, andset the fashion. There is a popular ballad of the province, 1587, on Fontenelle le Ligueur, one of the most notorious partizansof the League in Bretagne. He has been entrapped atParis, and while awaiting his doom, sends his page to hiswife, with these words (we spare our readers the Bretondialect):— Page, mon page, petit page, va vite a Coadelan et dis ala pauvre heritiere ^^ de ne plus porter des dentelles. De ne plus porter des dentelles, parce que son pauvreepoux est en peine. Toi, rapporte-moi une chemise a mettre,et un drap pour mensevelir. ^^ One singular custom prevails among the ancient familiesin Bretagne ; a bri

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