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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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A Lady of Antwkri.—(Ub. 1598. After (.lispiii de Passe.) vase (Fig. 64), varied according to fancy.^^ Antwerp nowmakes Brussels lace. One of the earliest pattern-books, that printed l)y Vor-.sterman ^^—the title in English—was published at Antwerp,but it only contains patterns for Spanish stitch and other•eml)roidery—no lace. There is no date affixed to the title-page, which is ornamented with six woodcuts representing •- Mercure Galant, 1696. ^ The flower-pot was a symbol ofthe Aniiimciation. In the early repre-sentations of the appearance of theAngel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary, lilies•are placed either in his hand, or set as i\n accessory in a vase. As Romanismdeclined, the angel disappeared, and thelily pot became a vase of flowers; subse-quently the Virgin was omitted, andthere remained only the vase of flowers.^ See Appendix. CO hO
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To face page 130. FLANDERS (WEST) 131 women, and one a man, working at frames. This w^ork ismost rare ; the only copy know^n may be found in the Library•of the Arsenal at Paris. Turnhout, which with Antwerp and Mechlin form thethree divisions of the modern province of Antwerp, seems tohave largely manufactured lace up to the present century ;as we find in 1803, out of forty lace thread and lace fabricsin the province, there were thirteen at Antwerp, twelve atTurnhout, and nine at Malines.^^ Turnhout now producesMechlin. FLANDEES (WEST). The most important branch of the pillow-lace trade inBelgium is the manufacture of A^alenciennes, wdiich, havingexpired in its native city, has now spread over East andWest Flanders. The art was originally imported intoFlanders from French Hainault in the seventeenth century.As early as 1656, Ypres began to make Valenciennes lace.When, in 1684, a census was made by order of Louis XIV.,there were only three forew^omen ^ and sixty-three lace-makers. Li

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