Lace, its origin and history . in a commercial way, such lace as was woven in the sixteenth andseventeenth centuries is beyond question. In the first place, time islacking, and if it must be confessed, the great skill that comes onlythrough years of constant practice is also lacking. Modern real lace is artistic, even superior, but compared with suchfew specimens as have come clown to us of the work of the lacemakersof old, its deficiency, particularly in the matter of the fineness of theexecution and thread, is at once apparent. Hand-made lace is to-dayproduced all over the world; commerciall
Lace, its origin and history . in a commercial way, such lace as was woven in the sixteenth andseventeenth centuries is beyond question. In the first place, time islacking, and if it must be confessed, the great skill that comes onlythrough years of constant practice is also lacking. Modern real lace is artistic, even superior, but compared with suchfew specimens as have come clown to us of the work of the lacemakersof old, its deficiency, particularly in the matter of the fineness of theexecution and thread, is at once apparent. Hand-made lace is to-dayproduced all over the world; commercially its production is confined toFrance, Belgium, Germany, Spain, Italy and England, where large quanti-ties are still produced. France, however, with that fostering care which shehas bestowed upon her many other arts, and with that keen apprecia-tion of the beautiful that is so inherent in her people, is far in the vanin the matter of producing hand-made lace, though in respect to twoor three types Belgium is in the front Real Honiton.
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