. History of lace . RebecCj^-Eognon.^^ The finest quality is spun in dark under-ground rooms, for contact with the dry air causes the thread « Meicurc Galant. 1678. Deux paires de manchettes etuue cravatte de point dAngleterre.—Inventairc (VAime tVEscoublcatt, Ba-ronne de Sourdis, veiive de Francoiscir Siiiiiane. Arch. Nat. M. M. 802. - Inv. aprcs le dcces dc Mgr. de la VHlliere, Fatriarche,Arcjieveque de Bo2i7gcs, 1694. MSS. F. Fr. 11,426. Une toilette et sa touaille avec unpeignoir de point dAngleterre.— deces de Mademoiselle de Charollais. 1758. Arch. Nat. ^ M
. History of lace . RebecCj^-Eognon.^^ The finest quality is spun in dark under-ground rooms, for contact with the dry air causes the thread « Meicurc Galant. 1678. Deux paires de manchettes etuue cravatte de point dAngleterre.—Inventairc (VAime tVEscoublcatt, Ba-ronne de Sourdis, veiive de Francoiscir Siiiiiane. Arch. Nat. M. M. 802. - Inv. aprcs le dcces dc Mgr. de la VHlliere, Fatriarche,Arcjieveque de Bo2i7gcs, 1694. MSS. F. Fr. 11,426. Une toilette et sa touaille avec unpeignoir de point dAngleterre.— deces de Mademoiselle de Charollais. 1758. Arch. Nat. ^ Mrs. Calderwoods Jotuiui/through Holland and Belgium. 17;> by the Maitland Club. ^^ Flax is also cultivated solely forlace and cambric thread at St. Nicholas,Tournay, and Coiutrai. The processof steeping (rouissagc) principally takesplace at Ccurtrai, the clearness of thewaters of the Lys rendering thempeculiarly fitted for the purpose. Sa-vary states that fine thread was firstspun at Mechlin. L^O to. (5 en To face page 118. BRUSSELS 119 to break, so line is it ;is almost to escape the sight. Thefeel of the thread as it passes through the fingers is thesurest guide. The thread-spinner closely examines everyinch drawn from her distatf, and when any inequality occursstops her wheel to repair the mischief. Every artificialhelp is given to the eye. A background of dark paper isplaced to throw out the thread, and the room so arranged asto admit one single ray of light upon the work. The life ofa Flemish thread-spinner is unhealthy, and her work re(|uiresthe greatest skill; her wages are therefore proportionably is the fineness of the thread which renders the realBrussels ground (rrai reseau, called in Flanders, droschel )so ^ The difficulty of procuring this fine threadat any cost prevented the art being estal)lished in othercountries. AVe all know how, during the last fifty yearsof the bygone century, a mania existed in the UnitedKingdom for improvin
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