. History of lace. CAI i>f TiiK eilAKLl> \. (.MllsLf <Il- < 1 This engraving is not accui-ately drawn. ITie spaces ronUiin birds and crosses, and not sprijjs. assemble in the ateliers ; the majority work at home. Thetrade now flourishes as in the most palmy days of theNetherlands. Lace forms a part of female education in Belgium. ^ It is said to destroy the eyesight. ^FcPherson, that they were generally I was told by a gentleman well almost blind before thirty years ofacquainted with Flanders, says age.—Historj/ of ((umiurcc, llSo. Fig. Isabella Clara Eugenia
. History of lace. CAI i>f TiiK eilAKLl> \. (.MllsLf <Il- < 1 This engraving is not accui-ately drawn. ITie spaces ronUiin birds and crosses, and not sprijjs. assemble in the ateliers ; the majority work at home. Thetrade now flourishes as in the most palmy days of theNetherlands. Lace forms a part of female education in Belgium. ^ It is said to destroy the eyesight. ^FcPherson, that they were generally I was told by a gentleman well almost blind before thirty years ofacquainted with Flanders, says age.—Historj/ of ((umiurcc, llSo. Fig. Isabella Clara Eugenia, Daughter of Philip II., Archduchess of Austria, Governess of tee Netherlands.—Died 1633. To face page 112. FLANDERS II (liarles V. commauded it to be taught in the schools andconvents. Examples of the manufactures of his period maybe seen in the cap said to be worn by him under his crown,and in the contemporary portrait of his sister Mary, Queenof Hungary. This cap, long preserved in the treasury of thebishop-princes of Basle, has now passed into the Museede Cluny (Fig. 51). It is of fine linen; the imperial arms areembroidered in relief, alternate with designs in lacis ofexquisite workmanship. Queen Marys cuffs (Fig. 53) are of the geometricpattern of the age, and we may presume, of Flanders make,as she was Governess of the Low (Jountries from 1530 tillher death. The oTand-dausfhter of Charles V., the Infanta Isabella, who brought the Low (Jountries as her dower, J^^i- 53.
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