Bobbins of Belgium; a book of Belgian lace, lace-workers, lace-schools and lace-villages . te S ^ £ &^ ^ „, ^ CO « :z :: - a; ;^ -^ ^ a> O. -J 5 ri o GHENT 257 the kitchen, she may yet see Stephanie,the first lace-maker of the village, atwork. Remembering the glistening shelvesand floors of other Flemish kitchens, Idid not mind; happily not, for in the endStephanie was more to me than manyvillages. She was bending over an im-maculate cushion, seventy-eight and un-married, and all her person as scrupu-lously neat as her cushion, from her oddlittle peaked black crochet cap to the feltshoes sh
Bobbins of Belgium; a book of Belgian lace, lace-workers, lace-schools and lace-villages . te S ^ £ &^ ^ „, ^ CO « :z :: - a; ;^ -^ ^ a> O. -J 5 ri o GHENT 257 the kitchen, she may yet see Stephanie,the first lace-maker of the village, atwork. Remembering the glistening shelvesand floors of other Flemish kitchens, Idid not mind; happily not, for in the endStephanie was more to me than manyvillages. She was bending over an im-maculate cushion, seventy-eight and un-married, and all her person as scrupu-lously neat as her cushion, from her oddlittle peaked black crochet cap to the feltshoes she had made herself. She wasweaving the flat surfaces of a daintyFrench bouquet, and as I stept towardher chair, looked up, delighted that someone was interested in what she was mak-ing. When I picked up a Bruges collaron the nearby table she tried in ejacu-latory Flemish to make me understand,that even tho she had made parts of it,she disowned the whole as unworthy thename of lace, and she brought my eyes 258 BOBBINS OF BELGIUM back to the delicate texture of the leavesand petals on her cushion. I wished to know what Stephanie wasgettin
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