. History of lace. ilk, and itslow price, l)ut its grounds are coarse, and the patterns wantrelief and solidity, and the bobbins are more often twistedin making the ground, which deprives it of its makes no small pieces, \mt shawls, dresses, etc.,principally for the American market. The Industrie dentelliere of East Flanders is now mostnourishing. In 1869 it 1)oasted 200 fabrics directed by thelaity, and 450 schools under the superintendence of the in the poor-houses (hospices) every woman capable ofusing a bobbin passes her day in lace-making. HAINAULT. The laces
. History of lace. ilk, and itslow price, l)ut its grounds are coarse, and the patterns wantrelief and solidity, and the bobbins are more often twistedin making the ground, which deprives it of its makes no small pieces, \mt shawls, dresses, etc.,principally for the American market. The Industrie dentelliere of East Flanders is now mostnourishing. In 1869 it 1)oasted 200 fabrics directed by thelaity, and 450 schools under the superintendence of the in the poor-houses (hospices) every woman capable ofusing a bobbin passes her day in lace-making. HAINAULT. The laces of Mons and those once known as les figuresde Chimay both in the early part of the eighteenth centuryenjoyed a considerable reputation. Mrs. Palliser, on visiting ^^ Eobinson Crusoe, when at Lisbon. * Answer to Si)-John Sinclair, by sends some Flanders lace of a good Mr. H. Schoiilthem, concerning the value as a present to the wife and manufactures of Ghent. of his partner in the Brazils. Plate >^ ri <D O ri o CD -1-3 d 1—1 O 02 CO C« !=i [ M s w Q „ ■< 0) g _^ c3 izi s CD PQ rt o cS m :^ a^ H d Q O ^ (D -< v<D CO d S ft ID rd H -1-3 S ^ P 1—1 P-i M P o w w M s 3 ^ fi^ To face page 134, HAINAULT ^ 135. Chimay in 1874, could find no traces of the manufacturebeyond an aged lace-maker, an inmate of the hospice, who madeblack lace— point de Paris —and who said that until latelyBrussels lace had also been made at Chimay. The first Binchelace has the character of Flanders lace, so it has been supposedthat the women who travelled from Ghent in the train of Maryof Burgundy, the daughter of Charles le Temeraire, createdthe taste for lace at Binche, and that the stay of the greatladies, on their visits to the royal lady of the manor, madethe fortune of the lace-makers. Afterwards there was muchtraffic between the lace-workers of Brussels and Binche, andthere is a great resemblance between the laces of the twotowns. Sometimes the latter is
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