Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1904 — Lacemaking. [ARTICLE]

Lacemaking.

The birth of laeemakiug dates back -to the days of Greek maidens who watched the spider make its web and copied the pattern with fine threads of flax. The art has developed to the point of producing brussels point, which is ho delicate in texture that the drynesa of the air makes the threads brittle;, therefore the makers of the finest kinds have to work in damp cellars, using magnifying glasses. On the altar cloths and vestments of the church will be seen the most beautiful of the old rose point as it was made by the nuns in their convent cells and dedicated to the use of the church. Every one is familiar with the paiuting of “Queen Boss, the Dress Lover,” which ahows her with high ruffles embrold- - ered with seed pearls. The portraits of *■ Queen Charlotte display this keenest of lace lovers in hoops of balloon-like flounces of her priceless lace. Queen Victoria preferred to lay away in lavender boxes the piles of inherited laces.