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FACING PAGE |
| H.M. Queen Elizabeth of Belgium, |
Frontispiece |
| Fifteenth Century Portrait |
32 |
| Showing heavy brocade as yet unrelieved
by linen or lace trimming. |
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| Portrait of Charles IX (1570) |
33 |
| Linen collar showing picot edge made with
the needle. |
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| Portrait Towards End of Sixteenth Century |
40 |
| Showing collar ornamented with bobbin-made cluny. |
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| Anne of Austria by Van Dyck |
41 |
| About 1635, cluny lace made with bobbins. |
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| Abbé Berraly School, Turnhout |
56 |
| General view. |
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| Nine-Year Children Making Point de Paris |
57 |
| Point de Paris Class |
64 |
| On dark days lamps are lighted behind bottles
filled with water, the rays passing
through, fall in spotlights on the cushions. |
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| Winding Bobbins for the Children |
65 |
| Point de Lille, or Point D’Hollande |
72 |
| Mesh showing “Esprits” or dots characteristic
of this bobbin lace. |
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| End of a Point de Paris Scarf About 2½ Yards
Long on Which Colette Worked One Year |
73 |
| In the Abbé Berraly School, Colette, 16-Years
Old, Works with 1,000 Bobbins |
73 |
| Belgian Lace Meshes(Plate I) |
80 |
| After Pierre Verhagen in “La Dentelle
Belge.” |
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| Belgian Lace Meshes (Plate II) |
81 |
| After Pierre Verhagen in “La Dentelle
Belge.” |
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| Bobbin Laces |
88 |
| Malines, Point de Paris, Valenciennes. |
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| Cushion Cover Representing Belgium’s Gratitude
to America for Bread |
89 |
| Point de Paris lace combined with linen.
The lower right-hand centerpiece shows the
rose design, emblem of Queen Elizabeth. |
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| Bobbin Laces |
104 |
| Torchon, Cluny, Old Flemish, Binche. |
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| Table Cloth Showing Arms of the Allies |
105 |
| Cut linen with squares of Venise surrounded
by filet and cluny; Venise made
with the needle; cluny with bobbins. |
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| A “Marie Antoinette” in Chantilly Lace |
128 |
| Made with bobbins, near Grammont. |
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| Cushion Cover |
129 |
| Center Venise, borders Valenciennes, lace
executed by 12 workers in one month,
embroidery and mounting by four women
in two months; design by M. de Rudder. |
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| Tea Cloth |
129 |
| Point de Paris, cock design. |
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| Lace Makers of Bruges |
144 |
| Bruges and Similar Bobbin Laces |
145 |
| Lace Normal School, Bruges. Beginner’s
Class |
152 |
| Symbolic color pattern on left-hand easel;
demonstration bobbins attached to colored
threads at right. |
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| Bed Cover in Duchesse or Brussels Lace |
153 |
| Made with bobbins; executed in Flanders by
30 women in three months; design by the
Lace Committee. |
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| Rosaline, which Closely Resembles Bruges |
160 |
| Details for Bruges Lace |
160 |
| Made with bobbins on round cushion. |
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| Doily Set in Point de Paris in the “Animals
of the Allies” Design, Executed at Turnhout |
161 |
| Point de Flandres or Flanders Lace |
176 |
| Flowers made with bobbins, mesh with needle;
designs by the Lace Committee. |
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| Handkerchief in Needle-Point |
177 |
| Made near Alost. Both mesh and flowers
made with needle. |
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| Detail Showing Seven Different Filling-in
Stitches |
177 |
| Venise Designs by the Brussels Lace Committee |
180 |
| Handkerchief and Jewel Boxes; Flanders and
Venise Over Satin and Velvet |
181 |
| Venise Banquet Cloth Presented by the Lace
Committee to H.M. Queen Elizabeth on Her
Return from Exile |
192–193 |
| Design by M. de Rudder; executed by 30
best Venise-makers in Belgium in six months. |
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| Cushion Cover in Venise |
196 |
| Pekinese dog; design by M. Allard. |
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| Table Center in Flanders with Center and
Border of Venise |
197 |
| Design by Lace Committee; executed in West
Flanders by five workers in 15 days. |
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| “The Tourney” Banquet Cloth |
208 |
| Design reproducing a mediæval painting in
Tournai, executed in Venise lace by 10 workers
in one month, mounting and embroidery
by five workers in one month. Price in
Brussels, 1,000 francs. |
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| “Arms of Allies” Cushion Cover in Venise,
with Details in Flanders |
209 |
| Needle-Point Scarf Expressing Gratitude of
Belgium to Holland. Presented to H.M.
Queen Wilhelmina |
216–217 |
| Executed by 30 workers in eight months. |
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| Bobbin Laces |
224 |
| Malines; Application, flowers sewn on tulle;
Duchesse, with Needle-Point insertion. |
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| Application Details to be Sewed on Tulle |
225 |
| Upper flower shows open spaces left by
bobbin worker for needle worker; lower
flower shows both bobbin and needle work
completed. |
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| Wedding Gift of Mr. Hoover to Mrs. Page |
240 |
| Executed in Venise and Flanders lace by 30
women working three months. American
eagles with outspread wings, protecting the
Belgian Lion enchained in the four corners. |
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| Flanders—Needle Mesh, Bobbin Flowers |
240 |
| Venise Lace Center, Border of Valenciennes |
241 |
| Lace executed in Flanders by 40 women in
two months; embroidery and mounting in
Brussels by four women in three months. |
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| Valenciennes, Square Mesh |
241 |
| Fan in Needle-Point |
256 |
| Executed by three women in six weeks.
“Shields of the Allies,” design drawn by
M. Knoff for the Lace Committee. |
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| Eighteenth Century Marriage Veil in Needle-Point,
Belonging to the Comtesse Elizabeth
D’Oultremont |
257 |
| It would take 40 workers about a half year
to copy this veil. |
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| At Work on Details of a Needle-Point Scarf
to be Presented to Queen Elizabeth |
268 |
| Needle Lace Class-Room in the Trade Union
Lace School at Zele |
268 |
| Needle-Point Illustration for the Fable of the
Fox and the Grapes |
269 |
| In the Zele Lace School. Joining Details of
the Needle-Point Scarf Presented to Queen
Elizabeth |
269 |
