Bobbins of Belgium; a book of Belgian lace, lace-workers, lace-schools and lace-villages . .. °= « K H w W £ w O I 13 U id ~i M N ^ M ^ K = 2: fe. ZELE 369 and records, for even tho Zele is a remotetown of but 6,000 inhabitants, this wide-awake director has made it provide forhim a better set of records and announce-ment and advertising cards (some ofthem in English) than I have seen any-where else in Belgium. While I was in-specting the books, he opened a chest andspread on the table a finished model fromhis school—a Needle Point scarf or veil,sown with marguerites and varied by abewildering
Bobbins of Belgium; a book of Belgian lace, lace-workers, lace-schools and lace-villages . .. °= « K H w W £ w O I 13 U id ~i M N ^ M ^ K = 2: fe. ZELE 369 and records, for even tho Zele is a remotetown of but 6,000 inhabitants, this wide-awake director has made it provide forhim a better set of records and announce-ment and advertising cards (some ofthem in English) than I have seen any-where else in Belgium. While I was in-specting the books, he opened a chest andspread on the table a finished model fromhis school—a Needle Point scarf or veil,sown with marguerites and varied by abewildering succession of open-workstitches, each seemingly more exquisitethan the preceding and some of theminvented for this particular veil. Theneedle-workers who had made it hadgiven about 9,000 hours to its flowersand gauze, and it would bring 3,000francs to the Trade Union treasury. I felt that I must fetch Stephanie tosee this, but Dr. Rubbens advised hurry-ing now to the school, where there wassomething still more beautiful to be seen 270 BOBBINS OF BELGIUM —the scarf just completed that will bepresented to Queen Elizabeth, and so farthe ch
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