Description - History of Lace by Mrs Bury Palliser
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 Excerpt: ...dentelles de soie et de fil ne sont pas moins bien travaillees." Many of the Protestant lace-workers took refuge in the cities of Freyburg and Altenburg. The modern faces of Bohemia are tasteless in design. The fabric is of early date. "The Bohemian women," writes Moryson, "delight in black cloth with lace of light colours." In the beginning of the present century, upwards of 60,000 people, men, women, and children, were occupied in the Bohemian Erzegebirge alone in lace-making. Since the introduction of the bobbin-net machine into Austria, 1831, the number has decreased. There are now scarcely 8,000 employed in the common laces, and about 4,000 on Valenciennes and points.35 The Countess Nako and Mr. Artaria, both of Vienna, possess fine collections of laces. SWITZERLAND. "Dans un vallon fort bien nomme Travers, S'eleve un mont, vrai sejonr des hivers." Voltaire. In 1572, one Symphorien Thelusson, a merchant of Lyons, having escaped from the massacre of St. Bartholomew, concealed himself in a bale of goods, in which he reached Geneva, and was hospitably received by the inhabitants. When after the lapse of near a hundred and twenty years crowds of French emigrants arrived in the city, driven from their homes on the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, a descendant of this same Thelusson took a body of 2,000 refugees into his service, and at once established a manufacture of lace.36 The produce of this industry was smuggled back into France, the goods conveyed across the Jura over passes known only to the bearers, by which they avoided the customhouse duties of Valence. "Every day," writes Jambonneau, himself a manufacturer, "they tell my wife what lace they want, and she takes their orders." Louis XIV...
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