Bobbins of Belgium / A book of Belgian lace, lace-workers, lace-schools and lace-villages

INDEX

• Aerseele, 110
• Albert King, 194
• Alcantara, Comtesse d’, 252
• Alençon (town), 31
• Alençon lace, 38, 132
• Allard, Mme. Josse, 169, 172, 209
• Alost, Lace region of, 149, 169ff, 224
• Spinneries of, 82
• America, Aid from, 17, 235, 236
• Lace buyer of, 252
• Laces displayed in, 40
• Americans in Ghent, 248
• Amies de la Dentelle, Convent subsidized by, 218
• Lace quality conservation by, 100, 272
• Prices under, 103
• School reforms under, 15
• War committee, see Brussels Lace Committee
• Antik lace, see Flanders, Old
• Antwerp, Old Flanders in, 115
• Port of, 30, 166
• Province of, 146
• Application lace, 226, 241
• Areas producing, 277
• Bobbins for, 289
• Lacets for, 171
• Method of making, 221ff, 292
• Restoration of, 256
• Tulle base for, 41, 259
• Ardois, 109
• Argentin lace, 38
• Arras, 31
• Asper, 252
• Bachte, 252
• Baelegem, 251
• Bailleul, 34
• Devastation of, 36
• Bayeux, 131
• Beernem, 123
• Béguinage of Bruges, 154ff
• of Ghent, 155
• Berraly’s convent, Abbé, 53ff
• Beth, Thread firm of, 81
• Bethune, Baron de, 85
• Beughem, Vicomtesse de, 17, 127, 169
• Binche lace, 115, 150, 152, 166
• Areas producing, 277
• Mesh designs, 297, 298
• Method of making, 40, 296
• Bixio, M., 27
• Blonde lace, 40
• Method of making, 134
• Bobbin lace, 37
• Areas producing, 97ff, 144ff
• Method of making, 39, 287ff
• Teaching, 161
• Varieties of, 39, 40, 292, 296
• Bousies, Comtesse de, 249
• Brabant, Lace area of, 215ff
• Province of, 146
• Bruges (town), 30, 51, 87, 91, 124, 247
• Lace region of, 143ff
• Lace Normal School of, 76, 100
• Bruges lace, 241, 249, 257
• Areas producing, 143ff, 277
• Collars and cuffs, 113
• Duchesse, 40, 149, 150, 152
• Method of making, 292
• Old, 109
• Point de, 104
• Rosaline and, 226ff
• Bruggen, Mme. Van der, 123
• Brussels (town), 19, 21, 85, 204, 210, 216, 217, 232, 241, 253
• German “Lace Control” in, 122
• Museum, 26, 42, 86
• Point d’Angleterre in, 223
• School of Design, 76, 165, 279
• Brussels lace,
• Duchesse, 40, 237, 241
• Point, 39, 179, 182, 283, 286
• Method of making Brussels Point, 286
• Brussels Lace Committee, 127, 148, 151, 195
• Agency, purchasing and sales, 108, 116, 174, 182,
• 206, 210, 225, 237, 241
• Designs of, 58, 193, 242
• Educational aims of, 56, 75, 115
• German interference with, 123, 238
• Improvements through, 36, 53, 121
• Map of lace areas, 276
• Origin and purpose of, 15ff
• Personnel of, 17
• Prices paid by, 103, 112, 123, 124, 254
• Representatives of, 105, 118, 149, 236, 252
• Thread supply for, 82, 88
• Burano lace, 39
• Bysance, 26
• Calais, 35, 172
• Celine, 250
• Chantilly lace, 40, 205
• Areas producing, 127ff, 277
• Method of making, 296
• Cinquantenaire Museum, 26, 42, 86
• Claterna, Ancient bobbins of, 27
• Cluny lace, 28, 44, 89, 94, 98, 111, 118, 123, 149, 150,
• 152, 162, 225, 237, 251
• Areas producing, 277
• Designs, 302
• Duty on, 90
• Guipures of, 99, 103, 104, 113, 149
• Method of making, 39, 296, 302, 304
• Coates, Thread firm of, 82
• Cock, Gillemont de, 148, 166
• Colbert, 31
• Colette, 179
• Collart, M., 17
• Comité National, Cooperation of, 16, 17, 19
• Relief work of, 216, 235
• Commission for Relief in Belgium, 120, 236
• Cooperation of, 16, 19, 135
• Compagnie des Indes, 17
• Convents, Lace-making
• Bruges, 149
• Cruyshautem, 202
• Eecke, 252
• Erembodeghem, 189ff
• Heckelgem, 215ff
• Kerxken, 173
• Liedekerke, 218ff
• Opbrakel, 201ff
• Ruysselede, 252, 255
• Scheldewinkle, 252
• Thielt, 105, 110
• Turnhout, 53ff
• Coppens, Mme., 256ff, 265
• Courtrai lace region, 79ff
• Cox, Thread firm of, 81
• Cruyshautem convent, 202
• Cuseners, Mme., 129
• Designs of various laces, 278ff
• Destelbergen, 224, 251, 256
• Deynze district, 252, 253
• Dixmude, 87, 143
• Duchesse lace, 98, 123, 163, 249, 251, 252, 255
• Areas producing, 277
• Bobbins for, 289
• Bruges, 40, 149, 150, 152
• Brussels, 40, 237, 241
• Guipures, 99
• Method of making, 292
• Eecke convent, 252
• Egypt, 26
• Elizabeth, Queen, 17
• Laces for, 38, 193ff, 270ff
• Patronage of, 15
• England, 30
• Thread from, 19, 82
• Tulle from, 35
• Erembodeghem, 185, 210
• Lace region of, 189ff
• Flanders (district), Lace industry in 30, 43ff, 146
• Flanders lace, 41, 99, 163, 237, 241, 251
• Details of, 224, 114ff
• Guipures of, 113
• Method of making, 292
• Old, 40, 111, 114ff, 150, 152, 166, 225
• France, History of lace in, 30ff
• Franciscaine Sisters, 173ff, 189ff, 201ff
• Friends of Lace, see Amies de la Dentelle
• Furnes, 87, 271
• Gand, Canton de, 248
• German depredations, 51, 59, 80, 82ff, 88, 231
• facteurs, 88, 119
• interference with lace workers, 18, 105, 110, 119, 120ff,
• 157ff, 174, 190, 219, 237ff
• “Lace Control,” 20, 120ff
• Ghent, 30, 87, 143, 147
• Béguinage of, 155
• Lace Committee, 249ff
• Lace region of, 247ff
• Spinneries of, 82
• Graeht, Baron van der, 105, 108, 114
• Mlle. van der, 105
• Grammont, Chantilly lace region, 127ff, 206, 296
• Greeks, 26
• Grenadine d’Alays, 139
• Groothuis museum, 151
• Gulleghem, 92
• Gysenzeele, 251
• Hainaut, Province of, 146
• Haltaert, 170
• Hansbeek, 255
• Hebrews, 26
• Heckelgem convent, 215ff
• Henry, Mrs. Bayard, 92
• Herzele lace region, 231ff
• Holland, 30
• Lace for Queen of, 207
• Hoover, Herbert C., 18
• Mrs. Herbert C., 193
• Hours of lace workers, 65ff 111ff 217, 228, 255, 268
• Imitations, 17, 41, 171, 183
• of Chantilly, 132, 138
• of Point d’Angleterre, 221
• Import duty on lace, 90
• Ireland, Thread from, 82
• Iseghem, 98
• Italy, 15, 36
• Ancient bobbins in, 27
• History of lace in, 29
• Kefer-Mali, Mme., 17, 42, 215, 221
• Kerxken lace region, 169ff, 224
• Knesselars, 251
• Lace areas, List and Map of, 276ff
• History of, 25ff
• Methods of making, 279ff
• Schools, 146, 147, 242ff
• Amies de la Dentelle and, 15ff, 76
• Chantilly, 129, 131
• Convent, 53ff 105, 149ff, 177, 190ff, 205ff, 215, 218ff, 252
• Coppens’, 256
• Normal, 100, 110ff, 152, 156ff, 273
• Trade Union, 265ff
• Varieties of, see Bobbin lace and Needle lace
• Landsanter, 251
• Liedekerke lace region, 215ff
• Liedt’s collection, Baron, 151
• Lille, 30, 34
• Lootenhulle, 252, 255
• Louis XIII, 32
• Louis XIV, 31, 32, 33
• Louis Philippe, 35
• Lys River valley flax, 30, 79ff
• Machelin, 252
• Maertens, Professor, 148, 156
• Maldeghem, 149
• Malines (town) 30, 86, 248
• Malines lace, 40, 100
• Areas producing, 277
• Bobbins for, 288, 289
• Mesh design, 299
• Method of making, 73ff, 296
• Old laces, 86
• Point de Lille and, 71, 72
• Map of lace areas, 276
• Margharita of Italy, Queen, 15
• Maria Loop, 110
• Marie Antoinette, 33
• Marie-Henriette, Duchess of Brabant, 249
• Marie-Thérèse, Empress, 248
• Menin, 87
• Mercier, Cardinal, 239
• Malines lace of, 75
• Milan lace, 104
• Guipure of, 114
• Mullie, Mlle., 87, 89, 90
• Museum, Brussels, 26, 42, 86
• Courtrai, 85
• Groothuis, 151
• Needle lace, 37ff, 201, 206, 208ff, 273
• Method of making, 279ff
• Varieties of, 38ff, 286
• Needle Point lace, 44, 99, 162, 169, 189, 202, 223,
• 248, 249, 251, 252, 269, 270
• Areas producing, 277
• Method of making, 178ff, 286
• New York, 90
• Nieuport, 87, 143, 271
• Ninove, 128
• Spinneries of, 82
• Northcliffe’s posters, Lord, 240
• Oedelem, 123
• Oostcamp, 123, 149
• Oosterzele, 251
• Opbrakel convent, 189, 201ff
• Oultremont, Comtesse Elizabeth d’, 17
• Paisley spinneries, 82
• Parc, Comte du, 231ff
• Mme. du, 231ff
• Paris lace market, 69, 90, 196, 223
• Paulis, Mme. Lucie, 165, 279
• Peat, Thread firm of, 93, 134
• Persia, 26
• Pittham, 109
• Point d’ Alençon, 132
• d’Angleterre, 181, 221, 241, 260
• Method of making, 40, 223ff
• de Bruges, 104
• de Flanders, 224ff
• de Gaze, 179, 283
• d’Hollande, 72
• Areas producing, 277
• de Lille, 40
• Areas producing, 277
• Mesh design, 300
• Method of making, 71, 296
• de Milan, 104
• de Paris, 40, 134
• Areas producing, 277
• Bobbins for, 289
• Mesh design, 299
• Method of making, 62, 296
• Various uses of, 69, 71
• de Venise, see Venetian Point
• Pompadour, Marquise de, 33
• Poperinghe, 87, 271
• Prices paid for lace, 88, 103, 117, 183, 196, 217, 254
• Prices paid for supplies, 88, 93
• Priestess of Hathor, 27
• Puy, Thread firm of, 93
• Reims, 31
• Reticella, 286
• Retreats, 154ff
• Rippenhausen, Freiherr von, 121
• Robertine, Sœur, 174ff, 197
• Rond mesh, 91
• Roose, Mme., 151
• Rosalie, 217
• Rosaline lace, 40, 152, 221, 223, 237, 241, 249, 255
• Areas producing, 277
• Method of making, 226ff, 292
• Rose point lace, 39, 195, 292
• Method of making, 286
• Rubbens, Dr. Armand, 162, 267ff
• Rudder, M. de, 193
• Rulant, Adele, 172
• Russian lace, 163
• Ruysselede, 110, 252, 255
• Ryeland, Mme., 149
• St. Andre, 149
• St. Croix, 149
• St. Michel, 149, 153
• St. Pierre des Calais, 132
• Scheldewinkle convent, 252
• Schools, see Lace schools
• Sedan, 31
• Sharlaecken, Mme., 17
• Sicily, 30
• Sidonie, 178
• Sister A., 190ff
• Sister M., 220ff
• Sister S., 195
• Slock, Mlle., 118
• Spain, Blonde lace for, 40, 134
• Stéphanie, 257ff, 265ff
• Stoop, M. de, 79, 84
• Syria, 26
• Syssele, 149
• Thielt lace region, 97ff
• Thourout lace region, 97ff
• Torchon lace, 40, 94, 99, 150, 152, 298
• Areas producing, 277
• Bobbins for, 289
• Designs of, 301, 303
• Teaching of, 162
• Turnhout, 43, 135, 143, 144, 165
• Lace region of, 49ff
• Union Patriotique des Femmes Belges, 17
• Valenciennes (town), 30, 34, 147
• Valenciennes lace, 31, 40, 85, 89, 94, 99,102, 105, 123,
• 149, 150, 151, 152, 155, 156, 163, 166, 248, 249
• Areas producing, 79ff, 87, 277
• Bobbins for, 288
• Duty on, 90
• Mesh, 27, 41, 71, 90
• Mesh design, 295
• Method of making, 296
• Prices paid for, 254ff
• School for, 110, 252
• Values of lace, 31, 88, 90, 225, 269
• See also Prices
• Van Hoeimessen, Curé, 176
• Venetian Point lace, 206
• Medallions, 192, 210
• Varieties of, 39
• See also Venise
• Venice, 29, 30, 144, 206
• Venise lace, 39, 169, 182, 189, 216, 237, 251, 252
• Areas producing, 277
• Method of making, 178, 192, 285, 286
• “Queen’s Cloth” of, 193ff
• Vynck, 252, 254
• Wages paid lace workers, 44, 65, 73, 89, 92, 110, 112ff, 124, 172,
• 218, 228, 250, 258, 268
• Wevelghem, 92
• Whitlock, Mrs. Brand, 16
• Wynghene lace region, 97ff
• Burgomaster of, 118
• Ypres, 36, 87, 90, 143, 271
• Zele, Lace school at, 76, 162, 265ff