. A history of hand-made lace : dealing with the origin of lace, the growth of the great lace centres, the mode of manufacture, the methods of distinguishing and the care of various kinds of lace . edges are straight and the patterns stiff. The A DICTIONARY OF LACE. 5 lace-makers achieve their work with extraordinary rapidity through long workingat the same pattern. The number employed in the industry, which in the lastcentury reached 30,000, is now reduced to a few hundreds. Many years ago gold lace was also made at Arras; in the account of thecoronation of George I., a charge for 354 yards o
. A history of hand-made lace : dealing with the origin of lace, the growth of the great lace centres, the mode of manufacture, the methods of distinguishing and the care of various kinds of lace . edges are straight and the patterns stiff. The A DICTIONARY OF LACE. 5 lace-makers achieve their work with extraordinary rapidity through long workingat the same pattern. The number employed in the industry, which in the lastcentury reached 30,000, is now reduced to a few hundreds. Many years ago gold lace was also made at Arras; in the account of thecoronation of George I., a charge for 354 yards of Arras lace appears amongst theexpenses. Asbestos Lace. The non-combustible mineral asbestos has been woven into a lace-like curiosity was at one time kept in the Cabinet of Natural History at the Jardindes Plantes, in Paris. A solution of asbestos is sometimes used for rendering lace draperies and flounces used on the stage near naked lights are frequentlysteeped in such a solution. Austrian Bobbin Lace. There is a comparatively modern variety made in Austria, in Bohemia. Itresembles old Italian bobbin lace; the school where it is made is under government. Austro-Hungarian Bobbin Lace, 6,-j- inches wide ; nineteenth centary. patronage. The industry was commenced as a means of relieving the distress inthe Tyrol in 1850, and continues to flourish. At Laybach, in Austria, there was at one time a bobbin lace factory whichproduced lace much esteemed in the eighteenth century ; this factory no longerexists. Point Gaze and a few less important laces are made in Bohemia still, butlittle of artistic merit. Hungarian lace is made at the present day, some of it beingof good and artistic design. Auvergne Laces. The origin of the making of lace in the province of Auvergne is assigned tothe fourteenth century, and nearly all the point lace of Aurillac passed through for 1 2 n6 HISTORY OF HAND-MADE LACE. exportation to Spain. At the end of the seventeenth ce
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