Bobbins of Belgium; a book of Belgian lace, lace-workers, lace-schools and lace-villages . hed to heavy coloredwool threads to aid the eye and young woman records the steps ofher progress in a series of copy-books so 160 BOBBINS OF BELGIUM beautiful in their penmanship and theirdrawing as to recall at once the manu-scripts of long ago. What, then, is the instruction whichthey receive ? Since there had never beena system of teaching lace-making in Bel-gium, the directors of the Normal Schoolwere obliged to develop one, and as itexists to-day, logical, comprehensive, far-seeing, it be
Bobbins of Belgium; a book of Belgian lace, lace-workers, lace-schools and lace-villages . hed to heavy coloredwool threads to aid the eye and young woman records the steps ofher progress in a series of copy-books so 160 BOBBINS OF BELGIUM beautiful in their penmanship and theirdrawing as to recall at once the manu-scripts of long ago. What, then, is the instruction whichthey receive ? Since there had never beena system of teaching lace-making in Bel-gium, the directors of the Normal Schoolwere obliged to develop one, and as itexists to-day, logical, comprehensive, far-seeing, it belongs exclusively to theSchool of Bruges. By the defectivemethod employed before, a pupil wastaught to make one kind of lace, thenanother, and another, but tho she mightbecome proficient in the execution ofthirty kinds, she might still be incapableof executing a new thirty-first variety ifit were presented to her, because she hadnot been taught the underlying prin-ciples. The Bruges directors found, after along and careful analysis of the processesemployed in all known laces, that they. ROSALINE, WHICH CLOSELY RESEMBLES PRUGES DETAILS FOR BRUGES LACE Made with Imliliins on round cushion
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