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History of lace (1902)

Palliser, Bury, Mrs., 1805-1878, Jourdain, Margaret, Dryden, Alice · New York : C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 432

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ners to wear over their liair : slie tookgreat interest in the work, and, profiting by the experiencederived from her Brabant teacher, succeeded in making herpupils produce first a fine knotted tricot, afterwards a kindof plain lace ground. In 1561, having procured aid fromFlanders, she set up, in… … Tomb of Barbara Uttmanx, at Annaberg. ■employment to 30,000 persons, and producing a revenue of1,000,000 thalers. Barbara Uttmann died in 1575, leavingsixty-five children and grandchildren, thus realising a pro-phecy made previous to her marriage, that her descendantswould equal in number the…

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