Bobbins of Belgium; a book of Belgian lace, lace-workers, lace-schools and lace-villages . BODBTX LACES (1) Torchon (2) Cluny (3) Old Flemish (4) Binche. TABLK CLOTH SHOWING ARMS OF THE ALLIES Cut linen with squares of Venise surrounded by filet and made with the needle, clunv with bobbins THOUROUT-THIELT-WYNGHENE 106 of fine sewing—the thread would catchwith every stitch—and yet that she couldturn from her scrubbing-brush to thelittle wooden bobbins (her fingers neednot touch the thread) and proceed with-out difficulty on a snowy bit of Valen-ciennes—for happily she was following
Bobbins of Belgium; a book of Belgian lace, lace-workers, lace-schools and lace-villages . BODBTX LACES (1) Torchon (2) Cluny (3) Old Flemish (4) Binche. TABLK CLOTH SHOWING ARMS OF THE ALLIES Cut linen with squares of Venise surrounded by filet and made with the needle, clunv with bobbins THOUROUT-THIELT-WYNGHENE 106 of fine sewing—the thread would catchwith every stitch—and yet that she couldturn from her scrubbing-brush to thelittle wooden bobbins (her fingers neednot touch the thread) and proceed with-out difficulty on a snowy bit of Valen-ciennes—for happily she was followingher mother in Valenciennes. There are three schools in Thielt, ofwhich the convent schools de la Chariteand de TEsperance are the more im-portant. I went first to the Convent dela Charite, with Mile, van der Graeht,who has throughout the war been devotedto the workers and the lace. Tho Thieltlay in the danger zone, she refused tochoose a safer city, remaining to sharethe work of her father, who added tohis arduous duties as administrator ofthe arrondisement, those of the repre-sentative of the Brussels Lace weeks before the end
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