Bobbins of Belgium; a book of Belgian lace, lace-workers, lace-schools and lace-villages . HANDKKRCll IKI AMI JKWKL BOXES, Fl. A X DKR-SATIN AXl) VKLVKT AXn OVER KERXKEN 181 the whole. Considerable freedom is al-lowed the lace-worker in the executionof these open-work stitches. If she hastalent she may obtain many interestingoriginal results in filling in, for there isapparently no limit to the number ofstitches she may employ. In Coletteslittle handkerchief square, I discoveredminiature marguerites and stars and airyballs. Each group had been made by aspecialist (many women have spent
Bobbins of Belgium; a book of Belgian lace, lace-workers, lace-schools and lace-villages . HANDKKRCll IKI AMI JKWKL BOXES, Fl. A X DKR-SATIN AXl) VKLVKT AXn OVER KERXKEN 181 the whole. Considerable freedom is al-lowed the lace-worker in the executionof these open-work stitches. If she hastalent she may obtain many interestingoriginal results in filling in, for there isapparently no limit to the number ofstitches she may employ. In Coletteslittle handkerchief square, I discoveredminiature marguerites and stars and airyballs. Each group had been made by aspecialist (many women have spent theirlives in making just tiny stars or wheels),and sent to the convent to be bound to-gether with the leaves and roses into abeautiful whole by the clear mesh thatdropt hexagon by hexagon from Colettesswift needle. Colettes neighbor was making thesame mesh, but as a background forbobbin-made clusters, sent here from abobbin-lace village to make the rarePoint dAngleterre, a small quantity ofwhich Kerxken still produces. 182 BOBBINS OF BELGIUM In the corner of this class-room werethe s
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