e children seated before their pillows, twisting their bobbins with wonderful dexterity. (Fig. 54.) In a tract of the seventeenth century entitled, Hngland's Improvement by Sea and Land, to outdo the Dutch without Fighting," we have an amusing account of one of these establishments. “Joining to… … A BELGIAN LACE SCHOOL, large room, and in the middle thereof a little box like a pulpit. Second, there are benches built about the room as they are in our playhouses. And in the box in the middle of the room the grand mistress, with a long white wand in her hand. If she observes any of them idle,…
Lace and lace making -- History
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