Bobbins of Belgium; a book of Belgian lace, lace-workers, lace-schools and lace-villages . y. .- o tj 5r, C. BED COVER IX DUCHE3SE, OR BRUSSELS LACK Made with bol)bins; executed in Flanders by 30 women in threemonths; design liy The Lace (ommittce BRUGES 153 coarse, much marketed modern Bruges,with its well-known roses and trefoils,sometimes scarcely meriting the name oflace, and the Bruges of the robe presentedin 1901 to Queen Elizabeth, then thePrincess Elizabeth, there is a deplorabledistance. The individual trefoils andarabesques and roses of the coarser kindsare made very quickly on the r
Bobbins of Belgium; a book of Belgian lace, lace-workers, lace-schools and lace-villages . y. .- o tj 5r, C. BED COVER IX DUCHE3SE, OR BRUSSELS LACK Made with bol)bins; executed in Flanders by 30 women in threemonths; design liy The Lace (ommittce BRUGES 153 coarse, much marketed modern Bruges,with its well-known roses and trefoils,sometimes scarcely meriting the name oflace, and the Bruges of the robe presentedin 1901 to Queen Elizabeth, then thePrincess Elizabeth, there is a deplorabledistance. The individual trefoils andarabesques and roses of the coarser kindsare made very quickly on the roundcushion, which can be readily turned, andare produced in great quantities in manyof the communes of the Bruges region,while fortunately in such a village asSaint Michel one can still see exquisiteexamples of the finer Bruges in the mak-ing. Rather than be introduced to the lace-making of Bruges by the youngerworkers in the schools, or in one of thethousand homes given over to it, I pre-ferred to go first to the place where prob-ably more strangers, especially Englishand Americans, have been initiate
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