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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
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gn manufactures. The King of Denmark, writes Moryson, wears but littlegold lace, and sends foreign apparel to the hangman to bedisgraced, when brought in by gentlemen. About the year 1712 the lace manufacture again wasmuch improved by the arrival of a number of Brabantwomen, who accompanied the troops of King Frederick Y\ .<m their return from the Netherlands,^ and settled at Tonder.We have received from Jutland, through the kind exertionsof Mr. Rudolf Bay, of Aalborg, a series of Tonder laces, taken * RawerVsIteiJort upon tlie Industry Thereof is exported to the Genuaiiin the Kingdom of Denmark. 1848. markets and the Baltic, it is suj)- The Great Recess. posed, for more than 100,000 rixdollars Two-thirds of a yard. (^11,110), and the fine thread must Dated 1643. be had from the Netherlands, and * Tonder lace, fine and middling, sometimes costs 100 rixdollars per lb.made in the districts of Lygum Kloster, —Pontoppidan. Economical Bnlanrckeeps all the peasant girls employed. 1759.
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;> ^>, ■- ^ = < To face page 274. DENMARK 275 from the pattern-books of the manufacturers. The earlierspecimens are all of Flemish character. There is the oldFlanders lace, with its Dutch flowers and double and trollygrounds in endless variety. The Brabant, with fine ground,the flowers and jours well executed. Then follow theMechlin grounds, the patterns worked with a coarse thread,in many, apparently, run in with the needle. There is alsoa good specimen of that description of drawn muslin lace,commonly known under the name of Indian work, butwhich appears to have been very generally made in variousmanners. The leaves and flowers formed of the muslin areworked round with a cordonnet, by way of relief to the thickdouble ground (Fig. 116).^ In the Scandinavian Museumat Copenhagen is a pair of lappets of drawn muslin, a finespecimen of this work. The modern laces are copied from French, Lille, andSaxon patterns ; there are also imitations of the so-calledMaltese. The Schleswio

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