Bobbins of Belgium; a book of Belgian lace, lace-workers, lace-schools and lace-villages . nenthread. Maries pattern happened to bea good one and she was working swiftlyand evenly, sure of a fair days wage. 104 BOBBINS OF BELGIUM Here, then, was a suggestive contrast,and however one may regret it, it existsin the large majority of lace-makinghouseholds in Belgium, and is only to beexpected. It is but the deserved penaltyof a past and present economic blindnessor callousness. Where they are not mak-ing Cluny, the younger women of this dis-trict give their time to ordinary varietiesof guipure wh
Bobbins of Belgium; a book of Belgian lace, lace-workers, lace-schools and lace-villages . nenthread. Maries pattern happened to bea good one and she was working swiftlyand evenly, sure of a fair days wage. 104 BOBBINS OF BELGIUM Here, then, was a suggestive contrast,and however one may regret it, it existsin the large majority of lace-makinghouseholds in Belgium, and is only to beexpected. It is but the deserved penaltyof a past and present economic blindnessor callousness. Where they are not mak-ing Cluny, the younger women of this dis-trict give their time to ordinary varietiesof guipure which they call Bruges andMilan, or Point de Bruges, and Pointde Milan. While I had been watching the Valen-ciennes and Cluny, the mother of thehousehold, who had the mop of fuzzydark red hair often seen in this region,had hurried her scrubbing to an end, andwiping her hands on her blue apron, wasready to uncover her own cushion. Ilooked at the chapped, rough skin andthe hands used to pulling weeds and dig-ging potatoes and scrubbing, and realizedthat they could not possibly hold a piece. BODBTX LACES (1) Torchon (2) Cluny (3) Old Flemish (4) Binche
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