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Netherlands in antiquity. As early as 1582 its lace-makers aredescribed, at the entry of the Duke of Anjou into the city, “ aswearing a special costume. A gown of striped stuff, with a capof fine linen plaited in small flutes.” A silver medal suspendedfrom the neck by a black ribbon completed a dress which hasdescended to the present century. 12 The peace of Aix-la-Chapelle

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Lille.

laving transferred Lille to France, its artisans retired to Ghent;| re described at that period as making both white and blackace - ihe art, however, did not die out, for in 17 13, n on the

K Les dentelieres avaient adoptc unpar-<3essu8 de calamande rayee, un bon-^iqnet de toile fine pli&se k petite canons.

ne medaille d'argent, pendue au eouP ar nn petit lisere noir, completaifc leurcoBtum ej qui est arrive jusqu'k nous; oar^ 01ia ^ nvoija vu, il n’y a pas trcnte ans.”

— Hist, de Lille , par V. Derode. Pariset Lille , 1848.

l * u Memoires sur Plntend&nce deFlandre.” MS. Bib. de Lille.

u Period of the pence of Utrecht, whenLille, w hich had been retaken by PrinoeEugene, was again restored to France.