. History of lace . French, Chantilly. Flounce, Black Silk, Bobbin-made.—Much reduced. Plate iPrench, Le Puy. Black Silk Guipure, by A. Dryden from laces the property of Mr. Arthur Blackborne. 2u Jiice page 218. NORMANDY 219 able as it was at the end of the seventeenth it has slackened since about 1745 for the amountof its productions, which have diminished in value, it hasnot altogether fallen. As this work is the occupation ofwomen and girls, a great number of whom have no othermeans of subsistence, there is also a large number of dealerswho buy their
. History of lace . French, Chantilly. Flounce, Black Silk, Bobbin-made.—Much reduced. Plate iPrench, Le Puy. Black Silk Guipure, by A. Dryden from laces the property of Mr. Arthur Blackborne. 2u Jiice page 218. NORMANDY 219 able as it was at the end of the seventeenth it has slackened since about 1745 for the amountof its productions, which have diminished in value, it hasnot altogether fallen. As this work is the occupation ofwomen and girls, a great number of whom have no othermeans of subsistence, there is also a large number of dealerswho buy their laces, to send them into other parts of thekingdom, to Spain, and the islands of America, This tradeis free, without any corporation ; but those who make lacewithout beinsf mercers cannot sell lace thread, the sale ofwhich is very lucrative.^ iVbout twenty years later we read. The lace maimfacture,which is very ancient, has much diminished since the points, Fig. 98.
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