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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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, and Knight (IwperialCyclojxvdia) all tell the same story. Peuchet cites theBlandford laces as comparables a celles quon fait enFlandres (excepte Bruxelles), en France, et meme dans lesEtats de Venise ; and Anderson mentions Blandford as aw^ell-built town, surpassing all England in fine lace. Morereliance is to be placed on the two last-named authoritiesthan the former, who have evidently copied Defoe with-out troubling themselves to inquire more deeply into thematter. It is generally supposed that the trade gradually declinedafter the great fire of 1731, when it was replaced by the ** At Bland, on the Stour, between and the finest point in England, equal, Salisbury and Dorchester, they made if not superior, to that of Flanders, the finest lace in England, valued at and valued at £30 per yard till the j630 per yard.—Universal Diet, of beginning of this century.—Hutchins Trade and Commerce. 1774. Hist, of the County of Dorset. 2nd * Much bone lace was made here, Edition, 1796. to
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!^^ To face page 396. WILTSHIRE AND DORSETSHIRE 397 manufacture of buttons, and no record of its former existencecan be found among the present inhabitants of the place/ Fig. 149 represents a curious piece of lace, preservedas an heirloom in a family in Dorsetshire. It formerlybelonged to Queen Charlotte, and, when purchased bythe present owner, had a label attached to it, QueenElizabeths lace, with the tradition that it was made incommemoration of the defeat of the Spanish Armada, as theships, dolphins, and national emblems testify. At this webeg to demur, as no similar lace was made at that period ;but we do not doubt its having been made in honour ofthat victory, for the building is decidedly old Tilbury Fort,familiar to all by the pencil of Stanfield. But the lace ispoint dArgentan, as we see by the hexagonal brideground and the workmanship of the pattern. None but thebest lace-workers could have made it ; it was probably thehandiwork of some English lady, or the pattern, designed

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