. History of lace. neck-ruffs of very fine linen. We read how, in 1667, France had l)ecome the rival ofHolland in the trade with Spain, Portugal and Italy ; butshe laid such high duties on foreign merchandise, the Dutchthemselves set up manufactures of lace and other articles,and found a market for their produce even in France. Afew years later, the revocation of the Edict of Nantes ^caused 4,000 lace-makers to leave the town of Aleneonalone. Many took refuge in Holland, where, says awriter of the day, * they were treated like gamed more than she lost by Louis XIV. TheFrench re
. History of lace. neck-ruffs of very fine linen. We read how, in 1667, France had l)ecome the rival ofHolland in the trade with Spain, Portugal and Italy ; butshe laid such high duties on foreign merchandise, the Dutchthemselves set up manufactures of lace and other articles,and found a market for their produce even in France. Afew years later, the revocation of the Edict of Nantes ^caused 4,000 lace-makers to leave the town of Aleneonalone. Many took refuge in Holland, where, says awriter of the day, * they were treated like gamed more than she lost by Louis XIV. TheFrench refugees founded a manufactory of that point lace ^ In the Census of 1571, giving the Roi qui ordonne Iexecution dune sen-names of all strangers in the city of tence du maitre de poste de Rouen,London, we find mention but of one portant confiscation des dentelles ve-Dntchman, Richard Thomas, a worker nant dAmsterdam.—Arch. Nat. billament lace. Rondonneau. - In 1G89 appears an Arrest du -^ 1685. Plate William, Prince of Orange, Father of William III., 1627-1650. School of Van collar is edged with Dutch lace. National Portrait Gallery. Photo bv Walker and Coekerell. To face page 258, HOLLAND 259 Called dentelle a la Reine^ in the Orplian House atAmsterdam/ A few years later, another Huguenot, Zacharie Chatelain,^introduced into Holland the industry, at that time soimportant, of making gold and silver lace. The Dutch possessed one advantage over most othernations, especially over England, in her far-famed Haarlem^thread, once considered the best adapted for lace in theworld. No place bleaches flax, says a writer of the day,^ like the meer of Haarlem. ^ Still the points of Holland made little noise in the Dutch strenuously forbade the entry of all foreign lace,and what they did not consume themselves they exported toItaly, where the market was often deficient.^^ Once alonein England we hear tell of a considerable parcel ofDutch lace seized between
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