. A history of hand-made lace : dealing with the origin of lace, the growth of the great lace centres, the mode of manufacture, the methods of distinguishing and the care of various kinds of lace . mentwere passed to protectthe trade from foreigncompetition. Much of thePoint dAngleterre attri-buted to Flanders wasmade in England, whichcountry has hithertoreceived but scant creditfor her point lace fromMrs. Bury Palliser andother historians of no kind,with the exception ofHoniton (in Devonshire),has been specially identi-fied with one locality,consequent on the variedsettlements o
. A history of hand-made lace : dealing with the origin of lace, the growth of the great lace centres, the mode of manufacture, the methods of distinguishing and the care of various kinds of lace . mentwere passed to protectthe trade from foreigncompetition. Much of thePoint dAngleterre attri-buted to Flanders wasmade in England, whichcountry has hithertoreceived but scant creditfor her point lace fromMrs. Bury Palliser andother historians of no kind,with the exception ofHoniton (in Devonshire),has been specially identi-fied with one locality,consequent on the variedsettlements of foreignworkers, yet Bedford-shire, Buckinghamshireand Northamptonshireare usually consideredthe centres for the pro-duction of English Lille,Valenciennes, and plaitedlaces, Brussels, Maltese,guipures, and black Middlesex black andwhite blonde laces wereproduced, and Dorset-shire was, until the eight-eenth century, famousfor the laces of Bland-ford and Lyme century ago the lacesmade in Devonshire andCornwall were of con-siderable variety, but atpresent Honiton applica-tion and bobbin lace arechiefly made. Descrip-tions of the laces will befound under their Lappet of Bobbin-made Point dAngleterre, style of Louis XVeighteenth century. 154 HISTORY OF HAND-MADE LACE. English Lille. This name was given to bobbin lace made in Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire,and Buckinghamshire, during the eighteenth century, on account of the closecopying of the Lille pattern by the English workers. It is described under theheadings Lille and Arras Laces. English Point. English Point, or Point dAngleterre, which is extremely beautiful, equal indesign and execution to many of the French and Venetian points, has not receivedthe attention with regard to its English origin which it deserves. The fact thatlarge quantities were smuggled into England from Belgium in the seventeenthcentury, when enormous supplies were demanded by fashion, has given rise to thebelief that al
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