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History of lace (1902)

Palliser, Bury, Mrs., 1805-1878, Jourdain, Margaret, Dryden, Alice · New York : C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 197

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re, the childrenseated before their pillows, twisting their bobbins withwonderful dexterity. (Fig. 54.) In a tract of the seventeenth century entitled, EnglandsJmjjrovement hy Sea and Land, to outdo the Dutch ivitlioutFighting^^ w^e have an amusing account of one of theseestablishments. Joining to… … A Bklgian Lack schuoi., large room, and m the middle thereof a little box like apulpit. Second, there are benches built a1)out the room asthey are in our playhouses. And in the box in the middleof the room the grand mistress, with a long white wand inher hand. If she observes any of them idle, she…

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