. History of lace . land. Ladies also, a century and a halfago, made it their occupation, as the motto of our chapter,from the drama of Holberg, will show. And this continuedtill the fashion of hvidsom —white seaming—the cut-workalready alluded to, was for a time revived. This workwas, however, looked upon as infra dig. for the wives offunctionaries and suchlike, in whom it was unbecoming towaste on such employment time that should be devoted tohousehold matters. Our informant tells of a lady in the 111 The lace fabric in Nortli Sles- it in their shops.—licport of the wick in 1840 was divided


. History of lace . land. Ladies also, a century and a halfago, made it their occupation, as the motto of our chapter,from the drama of Holberg, will show. And this continuedtill the fashion of hvidsom —white seaming—the cut-workalready alluded to, was for a time revived. This workwas, however, looked upon as infra dig. for the wives offunctionaries and suchlike, in whom it was unbecoming towaste on such employment time that should be devoted tohousehold matters. Our informant tells of a lady in the 111 The lace fabric in Nortli Sles- it in their shops.—licport of the wick in 1840 was divided into two Boyal HlcswicTi-Holstein Government. districts—that of Tender and Lygum 1840. Kloster on the western coasts, and Mr. Jens Wulff, an eminent lace-that of Haderslaben and Apenraadc dealer, Knight of the Danebrog, whoon the east. The quality of the lace has made great exertions to revive thefrom these last localities is so bad lace industry in Denmark,tliat no Copenliagen dealers will have Plate Russian.—The upper piece of lace is needle-point a brides picotees. Modern reproduction of a sixteenth century design. Width, 3g Saxon.—The lo\Yer x^iece bobbin-made by the peasants of the Erzgebirge. Nineteenth century Victoria and Albert Museum Width, 3i in. Plate LXXIII.


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