Bobbins of Belgium; a book of Belgian lace, lace-workers, lace-schools and lace-villages . 92 BOBBINS OF BELGIUM fingers and already producing a goodVenise insertion of a simple leaf of the other girls were busy withthe now well-known Venetian PoinImedallions representing the arms of theAllied nations, and the provinces of Bel-gium; still others were executing flowerdetails for yard lace. All this Venise theywere making with a needle and singlelinen thread, for this convent works ex-clusively with linen thread. They werehandling the black cloth patterns, eight toten inches wide
Bobbins of Belgium; a book of Belgian lace, lace-workers, lace-schools and lace-villages . 92 BOBBINS OF BELGIUM fingers and already producing a goodVenise insertion of a simple leaf of the other girls were busy withthe now well-known Venetian PoinImedallions representing the arms of theAllied nations, and the provinces of Bel-gium; still others were executing flowerdetails for yard lace. All this Venise theywere making with a needle and singlelinen thread, for this convent works ex-clusively with linen thread. They werehandling the black cloth patterns, eight toten inches wide, with apparent ease, turn-ing them with almost every stitch. Thismere mastery of the pattern is in itselfimpressive. In a corner, near one of the great win-dows overlooking the walled-in wintergarden, a slim, darkly clad girl about six-teen was absorbed in pricking a compli-cated pattern. Sister A. led me a littleaside to explain that this was their feeble-minded girl and that tho they could not VENISE BANQUET CLOTH PRESENTED BY THE LACE Cm.) Design by M. de Rudder; executed by tll^ I. I) QUEEN ELIZABETH ON HER RETURN FROM EXILE l/enise-makers in Belgium in six months EREMBODEGHEM 193 explain it, she was able to interpret cor-rectly very difficult drawings. At the Committee Bureau I had seenmany of the wonderful cloths made fromVenise details from this convent (amongthem the cloth typifying the burningcities, presented to Mrs. Hoover), but Ihad never imagined anything so lovely asthe exhibit the sisters had been arrangingon the long, low table, while we werepassing from chair to chair following the magic needles We turned to find the separate parts of a banquet cloth tobe offered to Queen Elizabeth on her re-turn from exile, assembled for us. Twohundred and twenty details, there were, onwhich during the darkest days of the war,women had worked with unfaltering faithand love. M. de Rudder, a well-knownBelgian artist, had drawn the design forthe Lace Committee. The border,
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