. History of lace. iFrench, Lb Puy. Black Silk Guipure, by A. Dryden from laces the property of Mr. Arthur Blackborne. To face page 218. NORMANDY 219 able as it was at the end of the seventeenth ^h it has slackened since about 1745 for the amountof its productions, which have diminished in value, it hasnot altogether fallen. As this work is the occupation ofwomen and girls, a great number of whom have no othermeans of subsistence, there is also a large number of dealerswho buy their laces, to send them into other parts of thekingdom, to Spain, and the islands
. History of lace. iFrench, Lb Puy. Black Silk Guipure, by A. Dryden from laces the property of Mr. Arthur Blackborne. To face page 218. NORMANDY 219 able as it was at the end of the seventeenth ^h it has slackened since about 1745 for the amountof its productions, which have diminished in value, it hasnot altogether fallen. As this work is the occupation ofwomen and girls, a great number of whom have no othermeans of subsistence, there is also a large number of dealerswho buy their laces, to send them into other parts of thekingdom, to Spain, and the islands of America. This tradeis free, without any corporation ; but those who make lacewithout being mercers cannot sell lace thread, the sale ofwhich is very lucrative. ^ About twenty years later we read, The lace manufacture,which is very ancient, has much diminished since the points, Fig. Petit Poussin.—Dieppe. • embroidered muslins, and gauzes have gained the preference ;yet good workers earn suthcient to live comfortably; butthose who have not the requisite dexterity would do well toseek some other trade, as inferior lace-workers are unable toearn sufficient for a maintenance. ^° M. Feret writes in1824/^ Dieppe laces are in little request; neverthelessthere is a narrow kind, named poussin, the habitual resourceand work of the poor lace-makers of this town, and whichrecommends itself by its cheapness and pleasing effect whenused as a trimmino- to collars and mornino^ dresses. Strano-erswho visit our town make an ample provision of this lace (Fig. 98). The lace-makers of Dieppe love to give their own •* Memoi)-es pour servir a VHistoirecle la Ville de Dieppe, composes enraiinee 1761, par Michel-Claude Gur-bert. P. 99. ^^ Memoires Chronologiques pour servir a VHistoire de Dieppe, par 1785. ^^ Notices sur Dieppe, Arques, etc.,par P. J. Feret. 1824.
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