. History of lace. Spanish.—Pillow made nineteenth century. Peseau of two threads twistedand crossed. Slightly reduced. Plate XXXV. Paraguay. Nanduti.—End of nineteenth century. Reduced rather over half. Photos by A. Dryden from private collections. To face page 108. 109 CHAPTER VII. FLANDEES. I For lace, let Flanders bear away the belle. —Sir C. Hanbnry Williams. In French embroidery and in Flanders laceIll spend the income of a treasurers place. —The Man of Taste, Rev. W. Bramstone. Flanders and Italy together dispute the invention of lace.In many towns of the Low Countries are pictures of t
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. History of lace. Spanish.—Pillow made nineteenth century. Peseau of two threads twistedand crossed. Slightly reduced. Plate XXXV. Paraguay. Nanduti.—End of nineteenth century. Reduced rather over half. Photos by A. Dryden from private collections. To face page 108. 109 CHAPTER VII. FLANDEES. I For lace, let Flanders bear away the belle. —Sir C. Hanbnry Williams. In French embroidery and in Flanders laceIll spend the income of a treasurers place. —The Man of Taste, Rev. W. Bramstone. Flanders and Italy together dispute the invention of lace.In many towns of the Low Countries are pictures of thefifteenth century, in which are portrayed personages adornedwith lace/ and Baron Reiffenberg, a Belgian writer, assertsthat lace cornettes, or caps, were worn in that country asearly as the fourteenth century. As evidence for the earlyorigin of pillow-lace in the Low Countries, Baron Reiffenbergmentions an altar-piece, attributed to Quentin Matsys (in aside chapel of the choir of St. Peters, at Louvain), in which agirl is represented making lace with bobbins on a pillow witha drawer, similar to that now in use.^ There