. History of lace. ourse between theirbrethren here established and those remaining in lace continued to get finer and closer in texture, thefiax thread being required so fine that it became necessaryto spin it in damp underground cellars. That the workersin England could not compete successfully against the ^ Complete System of Geography. in Englands Gazetteer, by PhilipEmanuel Bowen. 1747. Luckombe. London, 1790. This extract is repeated verbatim ^* Died 1398. 4o6 HISTORY OF LACE foreigner with their home-made threads we find over again. They also altered the Brussels d
. History of lace. ourse between theirbrethren here established and those remaining in lace continued to get finer and closer in texture, thefiax thread being required so fine that it became necessaryto spin it in damp underground cellars. That the workersin England could not compete successfully against the ^ Complete System of Geography. in Englands Gazetteer, by PhilipEmanuel Bowen. 1747. Luckombe. London, 1790. This extract is repeated verbatim ^* Died 1398. 4o6 HISTORY OF LACE foreigner with their home-made threads we find over again. They also altered the Brussels designs, andinstead of the beautiful fillino^s and ODen-work stitches,,substituted heavy guipure bars. By this period cordonnet or gimp had come into use in Brussels lace. The vraireseau, or pillow-net ground, succeeded the bride aboutthe end of the seventeenth century. This fashion enabledthe flowers to be made separately and worked in with thenet afterwards, or rather the net was worked into the flowers- Fig. Monument of Bishop Stafford, Exeter Cathedral. on the pillow. It was from the introduction of these-separate sprigs that Honiton lace was able to compete withBrussels. The pattern in Fig. 153 is sewn on the plainpillow ground/^ which was very beautiful and regular,but very expensive. It was made of the finest thread procuredfrom Antwerp, the market price of which, in 1790, was £70per pound,^^ and an old lace-maker told the author her father The best reseau was made by formed ^Irs. Palliser that her father hand with the needle, and was much often paid ninety-five guineas per more expensive. for the thread from Antwerp (1869). ^ Mrs. Aberdein, of Honiton, in- HONITON 407 had, during the war, paid a hundred guineas a pound to thesmugglers for this highly-prized and then almost unattainablecommodity. Nor were the lace-workers gains less remunerative. Shewould receive as much as eighteen shillings a yard for theworkmanship alone of a piece of this elaborate net, me
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