Palliser, Bury, Mrs., 1805-1878, Jourdain, Margaret, Dryden, Alice · New York : C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 401
in which institution there kilogramme. were, in 1723, 700 lace-workers. 238 HISTORY OF LACE In 1788 there were above 16,000 lace-makers at Lille,and it made 120,000 pieces ^^ of lace, representing a value ofmore than £160,000. In 1851 the number of lace-makerswas reduced to 1,600 ; it is still… … Lille. The old straioht-edofcd is no lonoer made, but the rosepattern of the Mechlin is adopted, and the style of that lacecopied : the seme of little square dots {points (Vesprit) on theoTOund—one of the characteristics of Lille lace—is stillretained. In 1862 Mrs. Palliser saw at Lille a complete…
Lace and lace making
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