. History of lace . tre). The lace-maker,working twelve hours a day, couldscarcely produce one-third of an inch a week. It would take her twelveyears to complete a length of sixor seven metres, her daily earningsaveraging two to three francs. Ypresmakes the widest Valenciennes of anymanufacture except Courtrai, whencewas exhibited a half shawl (pouite) ofAalenciennes. ^^ M. Duhavon Brunfaut, of Ypres. K 2 132 HISTORY OF LACE wire ground witli l)old lowing designs, instead of the thickfredle^ and scanty flowers of the okl laces. (Fig. 65.) Thechange was accepted by fashion, and the Valenciennes
. History of lace . tre). The lace-maker,working twelve hours a day, couldscarcely produce one-third of an inch a week. It would take her twelveyears to complete a length of sixor seven metres, her daily earningsaveraging two to three francs. Ypresmakes the widest Valenciennes of anymanufacture except Courtrai, whencewas exhibited a half shawl (pouite) ofAalenciennes. ^^ M. Duhavon Brunfaut, of Ypres. K 2 132 HISTORY OF LACE wire ground witli l)old lowing designs, instead of the thickfredle^ and scanty flowers of the okl laces. (Fig. 65.) Thechange was accepted by fashion, and the Valenciennes lace<jf Yj)res has now attained a high degree of has made great advances towards rivalling Ypresin its productions. Not a hundred years since, when the laces of Valen-ciennes prospered, those of Belgium were designated as fausses Valenciennes. Belgium has now the monopolyto a commercial value of more than £800,000. The otherprincipal centres of the manufacture are Bruges, Courtrai^ Fig. Valexciennes Lace cif Yi-itEs. and ]\Ienin m West, Ghent and Alost in East, Peuchet wrote in the eighteenth century, he cites les-dentelles a Iinstar de Valenciennes of Courtrai as l)eing \\\favour, and generally sought after Itoth in England andFrance, while those of Bruges are merely alluded to aspassing for Mechlin. From this it may be inferred thetide had not then flowed so far north. The Valenciennesof Bruges, from its round ground, has never enjoyed a high ?? Trcillc is tlie general term for the iiiore Valenciennes than all the other ground (rescaii) throughout Belgium countries united; upwards of 12 millions and the D(^p. du Nord. of francs (i;480,000).—Aubry. France alone buvs of ]3elgium Plate XLI.
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