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Title: History of lace
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Palliser, Bury, Mrs., 1805-1878 Jourdain, Margaret Dryden, Alice
Subjects: Lace and lace making
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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To face page 114. FLANDERS 115 And I believe this way of ordering the young women inGermany (Flanders) is one great cause that the Germanwomen have so little twit-twat/^ and I am sure it will be aswell were it so in England. There the children emulate thefather—here they beggar him. Child, he winds up, Icharge you tell this to thy wyfe in bed, and it may be thatshe, understandinsc the benefit it will be to her and herchildren, will turn Dutchwoman and endeavour to save Fi!?. 56.
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Oli> Flemish (Trolle Kant),llie piece of lace from which this woodcut is taken has five or six different designs all joinedto-ether ; probably patterns sent round for orders. moneys. Notwithstanding this good advice, in 1768England received from Flanders lace-work £250,000 to :herdisadvantage, as compared to her exports. The old Flemish laces are of great beaut v. some ofvaried grounds. Fig. 56 represents a description of lacecalled in the country Trolle kant, a name which has beentransferred to our own lace counties, where lace of a peculiar ^- An old term, still used in Scotland, for gossip, chatter. I 2 ii6 HISTORY OF LACE make is styled Trolly, with a heavy cordonnet which iscalled gimp or Trolly. Kant in Flemish is ^ lace. At one period much lace was smuggled into France fromBelgium by means of dogs trained for the purpose. A dogwas caressed and petted at home, fed on the fat of the land,then after a season sent across the frontier, where he wastied up, half-starved and ill-t

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