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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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Valenciennes. to any made in the present century. The reseau was fineand compact, the flower resembling cambric in its texture ;the designs still betraying the Flemish origin of thefabric—tulips, carnations, iris, or anemones—such as we Arthur Young, in 1788, says ofYalenciennes: Laces of 30 to 40lines breadth for gentlemens rufflesis from 160 to 216 li\Tes (£*9 9s.) anell. The quantity for a ladys head-dress from 1,000 to 24,000 livres. Thewomen gain from 20 to 30 sous a day.3,600 persons are employed at VaJen-ciennes, and are an object of 450,000livres, of which the flax is not more than 1/30. The thread costs from 24to 700 livres the pound. The barbes pleines consistedof a pair of lappets from 3 to 5 incheswide each, and half an ell (20 inches)long, with a double pattern of spriggedflowers and rounded at the ends. Anarrow lace 1^ ell long, called the Fa-piUon, with the bande or passe, andthe fond de bonnet, completed the suit. Fig. 108.
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Valenciennes Lappet.—Period Louis XVI, To face pa^e 234, LILLE 235 see in the old Flemish flower-pieces, true to nature,executed with Dutch exactness (Fig. 108). The city owednot its prosperity to the rich alone ; the peasants themselveswere great consumers of its produce. A woman laid by herearnings for years to purchase a bonnet en vraie Valen-ciennes, some few of which still appear in the northernprovinces of France at church festivals and holidays. Thesecaps are formed of three pieces, barbes, passe, et fond.The Norman women also loved to trim the huge fabric withwhich they overcharge their heads with a real Valenciennes;and even in the present day of bon marche a peasantwoman will spend from 100 to 150 francs on a cap which isto last her for life. The last important piece made within the city walls wasa head-dress of vraie Valenciennes presented by the city tothe Duchesse de Nemours, on her marriage in 1840. It wasfurnished by Mademoiselle Ursule Glairo, herself an agedlady, wh

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