Bobbins of Belgium; a book of Belgian lace, lace-workers, lace-schools and lace-villages . riSHIOX COVER Center Venise, borders Valenciennes, lace executed by 12 workers in one month, embroidery and mountin,<? by four women in two months, desiiiii by M. de Rudder. TKA ( Pcjint dc Paris, cock desij^n GRAMMONT 129 the sullen groups in their trailing gray-capes appeared to be casually tapping themud with their spades instead of beinggenuinely at work. My Belgian chauffeur, whose health isbroken after three years of forced laborin Germany, would have been delightedto run them down, and at
Bobbins of Belgium; a book of Belgian lace, lace-workers, lace-schools and lace-villages . riSHIOX COVER Center Venise, borders Valenciennes, lace executed by 12 workers in one month, embroidery and mountin,<? by four women in two months, desiiiii by M. de Rudder. TKA ( Pcjint dc Paris, cock desij^n GRAMMONT 129 the sullen groups in their trailing gray-capes appeared to be casually tapping themud with their spades instead of beinggenuinely at work. My Belgian chauffeur, whose health isbroken after three years of forced laborin Germany, would have been delightedto run them down, and at one point didsucceed in splashing a group with mud,as he called Boches and something Idid not catch. I began to understand theruling that released Belgian prisonersshall not be placed over Germans stillheld here. After lunch I started with MadameCuseners to the little lace school whosedirector has courageously carried on dur-ing the four years. We walked througha narrow arched passageway beside abrick building and into a large hall at therear which was at one time the lace class-room. Instead of lace-workers, however,we found Scotch and Canadian soldiers 130 BOBBINS OF BELGIUM busy tacking the Union Jack and Belgianflags on the wall, and hanging boughsand fe
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