NOKMANDY.

187

It was in the province of Normandy, as comprised in its ancientextent, that the lace trade made the most rapid increase in theeighteenth century. From Arras to St. Malo more than thirty

Fig. 87

isap

Cauchoise. From an engraving of the eighteenth century.

centres of manufacture established themselves, imitating withsuccess the laces of Mechlin; the guipures of Flanders; the “ fondclair, or single ground, then called point de Bruxelles; point deParis; black thread laces, and also those guipures, enriched withgold and silver, so much esteemed for church ornament, lhe