. History of lace . Spanish.—Pillow made nineteenth centurj-. Eeseau of two threads twisted and crossed. Slightly reduced. Plate Paraguay. Nanduti.—End of nineteenth century. Eeduced rather over by A. Dryden from private collections. To/acc paje 108. 109 CHAPTER VII. FLANDERS. Foi- lace, let Flanders bear away the belle. —Sir C. Hanbury Williams. In French embroidery and in Flanders laceIll spend the income of a treasurers place. —Tlie Man of Taste, Rev. W. Bramstone. Flanders and Italy together dispute the invention of many towns of the Low Countries are pictures of


. History of lace . Spanish.—Pillow made nineteenth centurj-. Eeseau of two threads twisted and crossed. Slightly reduced. Plate Paraguay. Nanduti.—End of nineteenth century. Eeduced rather over by A. Dryden from private collections. To/acc paje 108. 109 CHAPTER VII. FLANDERS. Foi- lace, let Flanders bear away the belle. —Sir C. Hanbury Williams. In French embroidery and in Flanders laceIll spend the income of a treasurers place. —Tlie Man of Taste, Rev. W. Bramstone. Flanders and Italy together dispute the invention of many towns of the Low Countries are pictures of thefifteenth century, in which are portrayed personages adornedwith lace/ and Baron Reiffenberg, a Belgian writer, assertsthat lace cornettes, or caps, were worn in that country asearly as the fourteenth century. As evidence for the earlyorigin of pillow-lace in the Low Countries, Baron Reiftenbergmentions an altar-piece, attributed to (,)uentin Matsys (in aside chapel of the choir of St. Peters, at Louvain), in which agirl is represented making lace with bobbins on a pillow witha drawer, similar to that now in ^ Ther


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