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here muffled up in point and outwork, after the manner of Holland,for there were no such things to be seen.” 12

The Hutch lace most in use was thick, strong, and serviceable.Fig. 100 adorned a Dutchw r oman’s cap. That which has comeunder our notice resembles the fine close Valenciennes, having apattern often of flowers or fruit strictly copied from nature. “ r llieladies wear,” remarks Mrs. Calderwood, “very good lace mobs.”The shirt worn by William the Silent when he fell by the assassinis still preserved at the Hague; it is trimmed with a lace de-scribed as of thick linen stitches, drawn and worked over in astyle familiar to those acquainted with the earlier Dutch pictures.

SAXONY.

“ Hero unregarded lies the rich brocade,

There Dresden lace in scatter’d heaps is laid;

Hero the gilt china vase bestrews the floor,

While chidden Betty weeps without the door.”

Eclogue on the Death of Shoch, a Pet iMpdog. Ladie*Magazine , 1751.

“ His olive-tann’d complexion gracesWith little dabs of Dresden laces;

While for the body Mounseer PuffWould think e’en dowlas fine enough.”

French Barber, 1756.

The honour of introducing pillow lace into Germany is ac-corded by common consent to Barbara Uttmann. She was bornin 1514, in the small town of Etterlein, which derives its namefrom her family. Her parents, burghers of Nuremberg, hadremoved to the Saxon Erzgebirge, for the purpose of workingsome mines. Barbara Etterlein here married a rich master minernamed Christopher Uttmann, of Annaberg. It is said that shelearned lace-making from a native of Brabant, a Protestant, whomthe cruelties of the Spaniards had driven from her countryBarbara had observed the mountain girls occupied in making anetwork for the miners to wear over their hair: she took greatinterest in the work, and, profiting by the experience derived fromher Brabant teacher, succeeded in making her pupils produce akind of plain lace ground. In 1561, having procured aid from

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