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“Dentelles de Liege, fines et grosses de toutes sortes,” arementioned with those of Lorraine and Du Comte (Franche-Comte)in the tariff fixed by a French edict of 18th September 1664. 69Mrs. Calderwood, who visited Liege in 1756, admires the pointedging to the surplices of the canons, which, she remarks, “ havea very genteel appearance.” The manufacture had declined atLiege, in 1802, when it is classed by the French Commissionersamong the “ fabriques moins considerables.”

Some years since an establishment of “ dentelle torchon ” wasestablished at Stavelot, near Spa. Upwards of a hundred childrenwere then employed, and the manufacture flourished sufficientlyto cause much irritation to the Belgian custom-house officers.

The lace products of St. Trend, in the province of Limburg,appear, by the report of the French commission of 1803, to havebeen of some importance. Lace, they say, is made at St. Trend,where from 800 to 900 are so employed, either at their own homesor in the workshops of the lace manufacturers. The laces resemblethose of Brussels and Mechlin, and although they have a lessreputation in commerce, several descriptions are made, and about8000 metres are produced of laces of first quality, fetching from12 to 14 francs the metre. These laces are chiefly made forexportation, and are sold mostly in Holland and at the Frankfortfairs. 70

Within the last few years the immense development of theBelgian lace trade has overthrown the characteristic lace of eachrespective city. Lace, white and black, point and pillow, may atthe present time be met with in every province of the nowflourishing kingdom of Belgium.

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70 “ Statistique du Dep. de la Meuse-Inf., par le Citoyen Cayenne. An X.”

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