seen of a summer's evening sitting at the cottage doors making Lice. Though no other lace manufactory can be said to exist in Sweden beyond that of Wadstena, still much lace is made by the peasantry for home consumption. The author has received from the Countess Elizabeth Piper, late grande… … Dalecarlian lace. Far more curious are the laces that have been sent to us, made by the peasants of Dalecarlia, still retaining the patterns used in the rest of Europe two hundred years since. The broader 19 kinds, of which we give a woodcut (Fig. 104), are from Gaguef, that part of Dalecarlia…
Lace and lace making
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