Palliser, Bury, Mrs., 1805-1878, Jourdain, Margaret, Dryden, Alice · New York : C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 384
hus divides the lace- The women earn from 50 sous to,25 makers of Normandy :— sous a day, an improvement on the Department of Calvados— wages of the last century, which, in Arrondissement of Caen . . 25,000 the time of Arthur Young, seldom Arr. of Ba^-eux 15,000 amounted to 24 sous. Arr. of… … To face page 228. NORMANDY 229 Embroidered tulle or point de^^prit was made in Brittanyas in Denmark, and around Genoa, where its production stillcontinues. Embroidered muslins with open-work lacestitches were also made in Brittany during the eighteenthcentury, and called Broderie des Indes, after…
Lace and lace making
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