Bobbins of Belgium; a book of Belgian lace, lace-workers, lace-schools and lace-villages . ve, in a sense, heldthe lace industry in their hands. Beforethe war, Ypres had two famous pique- 56 BOBBINS OF BELGIUM uses, to whom patterns were sent from anentire region; and in the town of Turn-hout to-day, with its thousands of work-ers, tho there are several less experi-enced piqueuses, there is but one womanto whom the finest and most complicateddrawings can be entrusted for interpre-tation. She is the only person, for exam-ple, who could make the pique for thebeautiful scarf, which I saw later be
Bobbins of Belgium; a book of Belgian lace, lace-workers, lace-schools and lace-villages . ve, in a sense, heldthe lace industry in their hands. Beforethe war, Ypres had two famous pique- 56 BOBBINS OF BELGIUM uses, to whom patterns were sent from anentire region; and in the town of Turn-hout to-day, with its thousands of work-ers, tho there are several less experi-enced piqueuses, there is but one womanto whom the finest and most complicateddrawings can be entrusted for interpre-tation. She is the only person, for exam-ple, who could make the pique for thebeautiful scarf, which I saw later beingexecuted in the Point de Paris room—forthat she received 90 francs. It is a com-mon saying that one must be born apiqueuse to succeed; at least it remainstrue that in addition to her capacityfor an intricate and most meticulouslabor, the piqueuse should possess a highsensitiveness to art values. The little room in the Abbe Berralysschool is one expression of the LaceCommittees conviction that the emanci-pation of the industry and of the lace-maker will come only through
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