Embroidery and lace: their manufacture and history from the remotest antiquity to the present dayA handbook for amateurs, collectors and general readers . ongregate in communities, makeValenciennes laces. Along the line between Poperinghe,Courtrai, and Ghent an active commerce in these laces 294 II. LACES. is carried on; the town of Ypres makes a betterquality (fig. 136). In France, Valenciennes laces are made at the small frontier town of Bailleul,where a museum of laceshas been and otherlarge towns have, how-ever, taken no troubleto preserve the smallestspecimen of t
Embroidery and lace: their manufacture and history from the remotest antiquity to the present dayA handbook for amateurs, collectors and general readers . ongregate in communities, makeValenciennes laces. Along the line between Poperinghe,Courtrai, and Ghent an active commerce in these laces 294 II. LACES. is carried on; the town of Ypres makes a betterquality (fig. 136). In France, Valenciennes laces are made at the small frontier town of Bailleul,where a museum of laceshas been and otherlarge towns have, how-ever, taken no troubleto preserve the smallestspecimen of the fabricswhich made their namesfamous. During the last thirtyyears a lace termedValenciennes-Brabant hasbeen made, in which thedivision of labour, com-mon to Flemish laces, hasbeen adopted. Instead ofbeing made in one piece,as is the case with Valen-ciennes lace, the flowersand ornaments are madefirst and the groundworkis then inserted betweenthem. This process is welladapted to the productionof large pieces which couldnot be conveniently pro-duced in narrow bands or strips of lace (fig. 137).Mechlin Lace.—This is a light-looking lace, the close. Fig. 136.—Modern Valenciennes(Ypres) lace, with squaremesh ground. FROM LOUIS XV. TO THE PRESENT TIME. 295portions of the ornament and flowers, etc., being more
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