. History of lace. English Point.—(Northampton.), On the breaking out of the war with France, the closingof our ports to French goods gave an impetus to the trade,and the manufacturers undertook to supply the English NOR THAMPTONSHIRE 387 nnarket with lace similar to that of Normandy and villages of France ; hence a sort of fausseValenciennes, called the French ojround. But true Fis. Baby Lace.—(Northampton.) Valenciennes was also fabricated so fine (Fig. 144) as the products of French Hainault. It was made in Fig. 141. Fig. 142.

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