. History of lace . English Point.—(Noitliampton.); 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 TEA MP TON SHIRE 387 •market with lace similar to that of Normandy and the,sea-coast villages of France ; hence a sort of fausse Valenciennes, called the French ground. But true Fig. Baby Lack.—(Northampton.) Valenciennes was also fcibricated so fine (Fig. 144) as the products of French Hainault. It w^as made in Fig. 141. Fig. 142.

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