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HISTORY OK LACE.

the end of the century entirely expel the bouquets from the ground.Fig. 82, inadvertently placed here, is Brussels. 9

Point d’Alenfon is made entirely by hand, with a line needle,upon a parchment pattern, in small pieces, afterwards united byinvisible seams. Each part is executed by a special workwoman.

Formerly it required eighteen 10 different hands to complete

9 Before the Revolution, Roland esti-mates the annual value of ti e manufac-ture at 11,000,000 to 12.000,000 livros.

Savary deducts 150,000 livres for theraw material, the Lille thread, which

was used at prices ranging from 800 to900livres for good line point; but Lilleat that time fabricated thread as highas 1800 livrts per lb.

10 These were the “ piqueuse,” “ tra-

llnnaels point a I’aiguUle. Formerly be Ion get l to H. M. Queen Charlotte.