. History of lace. re, a being a marked difierence between the 6011., —Comptes de Madame productions.— Barry. After the French Eevolution, when ^ Statistique du Dep. du Nord, par so many lace-makers fled to Belgium, M. Dieudonne, Prefet en 1804. Alost, Ypres, Bruges, Ghent, Menin, ^ Among the various fabrics having and Courtrai became the centres of the same process of manufacture, there this industry, and the lace produced is not one which produces exactly the in each town has a distinctive feature same style of lace. The same pattern, in the ground. That made in Ghent with t
. History of lace. re, a being a marked difierence between the 6011., —Comptes de Madame productions.— Barry. After the French Eevolution, when ^ Statistique du Dep. du Nord, par so many lace-makers fled to Belgium, M. Dieudonne, Prefet en 1804. Alost, Ypres, Bruges, Ghent, Menin, ^ Among the various fabrics having and Courtrai became the centres of the same process of manufacture, there this industry, and the lace produced is not one which produces exactly the in each town has a distinctive feature same style of lace. The same pattern, in the ground. That made in Ghent with the same material, whether exe- is square-meshed, the bobbins being -cuted in Belgium, Saxony, Lille, Arras, twisted two and a half times. At Mirecourt, or Le Puy, will always bear Ypres, which makes a better quality 232 HISTORY OF LACE The extinction of the fabric and its transfer to Belgiunahas been a great commercial loss to France. Valenciennes^being specially a dentelle linge, is that of which the Fig. Valenciennes.—Period Louis XIV. greatest quantity is consumed throughout the lace is altogether made upon the pillow, with of Valenciennes, the ground is alsosquare-meshed, but the bobbins aretwisted four times. In Courtrai andMenin the grounds are twisted three and a half times, and in Bruges, wherethe ground has a circular mesh, the-bobbins are twisted three times. Plate LXII.
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