Palliser, Bury, Mrs., 1805-1878, Jourdain, Margaret, Dryden, Alice · New York : C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 396
in from 20 to 30 sous a day.3,600 persons are employed at VaJen-ciennes, and are an object of 450,000livres, of which the flax is not more than 1/30. The thread costs from 24to 700 livres the pound. The barbes pleines consistedof a pair of lappets from 3 to 5 incheswide each, and half an ell (20… … Valenciennes Lappet.—Period Louis XVI, To face pa^e 234, LILLE 235 see in the old Flemish flower-pieces, true to nature,executed with Dutch exactness (Fig. 108). The city owednot its prosperity to the rich alone ; the peasants themselveswere great consumers of its produce. A woman laid by…
Lace and lace making
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