Bobbins of Belgium / A book of Belgian lace, lace-workers, lace-schools and lace-villages

by Charlotte Kellogg

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INDEX

• Aerseele, [110]
• Albert King, [194]
• Alcantara, Comtesse d’, [252]
• Alençon (town), [31]
• Alençon lace, [38], [132]
• Allard, Mme. Josse, [169], [172], [209]
• Alost, Lace region of, [149], [169]ff, [224]
• Spinneries of, [82]
• America, Aid from, [17], [235], [236]
• Lace buyer of, [252]
• Laces displayed in, [40]
• Americans in Ghent, [248]
• Amies de la Dentelle, Convent subsidized by, [218]
• Lace quality conservation by, [100], [272]
• Prices under, [103]
• School reforms under, [15]
• War committee, see [Brussels Lace Committee]
• Antik lace, see [Flanders, Old]
• Antwerp, Old Flanders in, [115]
• Port of, [30], [166]
• Province of, [146]
• Application lace, [226], [241]
• Areas producing, [277]
• Bobbins for, [289]
• Lacets for, [171]
• Method of making, [221]ff, [292]
• Restoration of, [256]
• Tulle base for, [41], [259]
• Ardois, [109]
• Argentin lace, [38]
• Arras, [31]
• Asper, [252]
• Bachte, [252]
• Baelegem, [251]
• Bailleul, [34]
• Devastation of, [36]
• Bayeux, [131]
• Beernem, [123]
• Béguinage of Bruges, [154]ff
• of Ghent, [155]
• Berraly’s convent, Abbé, [53]ff
• Beth, Thread firm of, [81]
• Bethune, Baron de, [85]
• Beughem, Vicomtesse de, [17], [127], [169]
• Binche lace, [115], [150], [152], [166]
• Areas producing, [277]
• Mesh designs, [297], [298]
• Method of making, [40], [296]
• Bixio, M., [27]
• Blonde lace, [40]
• Method of making, [134]
• Bobbin lace, [37]
• Areas producing, [97]ff, [144]ff
• Method of making, [39], [287]ff
• Teaching, [161]
• Varieties of, [39], [40], [292], [296]
• Bousies, Comtesse de, [249]
• Brabant, Lace area of, [215]ff
• Province of, [146]
• Bruges (town), [30], [51], [87], [91], [124], [247]
• Lace region of, [143]ff
• Lace Normal School of, [76], [100]
• Bruges lace, [241], [249], [257]
• Areas producing, [143]ff, [277]
• Collars and cuffs, [113]
• Duchesse, [40], [149], [150], [152]
• Method of making, [292]
• Old, [109]
• Point de, [104]
• Rosaline and, [226]ff
• Bruggen, Mme. Van der, [123]
• Brussels (town), [19], [21], [85], [204], [210], [216], [217], [232], [241], [253]
• German “Lace Control” in, [122]
• Museum, [26], [42], [86]
• Point d’Angleterre in, [223]
• School of Design, [76], [165], [279]
• Brussels lace,
• Duchesse, [40], [237], [241]
• Point, [39], [179], [182], [283], [286]
• Method of making Brussels Point, [286]
• Brussels Lace Committee, [127], [148], [151], [195]
• Agency, purchasing and sales, [108], [116], [174], [182],
• [206], [210], [225], [237], [241]
• Designs of, [58], [193], [242]
• Educational aims of, [56], [75], [115]
• German interference with, [123], [238]
• Improvements through, [36], [53], [121]
• Map of lace areas, [276]
• Origin and purpose of, [15]ff
• Personnel of, [17]
• Prices paid by, [103], [112], [123], [124], [254]
• Representatives of, [105], [118], [149], [236], [252]
• Thread supply for, [82], [88]
• Burano lace, [39]
• Bysance, [26]
• Calais, [35], [172]
• Celine, [250]
• Chantilly lace, [40], [205]
• Areas producing, [127]ff, [277]
• Method of making, [296]
• Cinquantenaire Museum, [26], [42], [86]
• Claterna, Ancient bobbins of, [27]
• Cluny lace, [28], [44], [89], [94], [98], [111], [118], [123], [149], [150],
• [152], [162], [225], [237], [251]
• Areas producing, [277]
• Designs, [302]
• Duty on, [90]
• Guipures of, [99], [103], [104], [113], [149]
• Method of making, [39], [296], [302], [304]
• Coates, Thread firm of, [82]
• Cock, Gillemont de, [148], [166]
• Colbert, [31]
• Colette, [179]
• Collart, M., [17]
• Comité National, Cooperation of, [16], [17], [19]
• Relief work of, [216], [235]
• Commission for Relief in Belgium, [120], [236]
• Cooperation of, [16], [19], [135]
• Compagnie des Indes, [17]
• Convents, Lace-making
• Bruges, [149]
• Cruyshautem, [202]
• Eecke, [252]
• Erembodeghem, [189]ff
• Heckelgem, [215]ff
• Kerxken, [173]
• Liedekerke, [218]ff
• Opbrakel, [201]ff
• Ruysselede, [252], [255]
• Scheldewinkle, [252]
• Thielt, [105], [110]
• Turnhout, [53]ff
• Coppens, Mme., [256]ff, [265]
• Courtrai lace region, [79]ff
• Cox, Thread firm of, [81]
• Cruyshautem convent, [202]
• Cuseners, Mme., [129]
• Designs of various laces, [278]ff
• Destelbergen, [224], [251], [256]
• Deynze district, [252], [253]
• Dixmude, [87], [143]
• Duchesse lace, [98], [123], [163], [249], [251], [252], [255]
• Areas producing, [277]
• Bobbins for, [289]
• Bruges, [40], [149], [150], [152]
• Brussels, [40], [237], [241]
• Guipures, [99]
• Method of making, [292]
• Eecke convent, [252]
• Egypt, [26]
• Elizabeth, Queen, [17]
• Laces for, [38], [193]ff, [270]ff
• Patronage of, [15]
• England, [30]
• Thread from, [19], [82]
• Tulle from, [35]
• Erembodeghem, [185], [210]
• Lace region of, [189]ff
• Flanders (district), Lace industry in [30], [43]ff, [146]
• Flanders lace, [41], [99], [163], [237], [241], [251]
• Details of, [224], [114]ff
• Guipures of, [113]
• Method of making, [292]
• Old, [40], [111], [114]ff, [150], [152], [166], [225]
• France, History of lace in, [30]ff
• Franciscaine Sisters, [173]ff, [189]ff, [201]ff
• Friends of Lace, see [Amies de la Dentelle]
• Furnes, [87], [271]
• Gand, Canton de, [248]
• German depredations, [51], [59], [80], [82]ff, [88], [231]
• facteurs, [88], [119]
• interference with lace workers, [18], [105], [110], [119], [120]ff,
• [157]ff, [174], [190], [219], [237]ff
• “Lace Control,” [20], [120]ff
• Ghent, [30], [87], [143], [147]
• Béguinage of, [155]
• Lace Committee, [249]ff
• Lace region of, [247]ff
• Spinneries of, [82]
• Graeht, Baron van der, [105], [108], [114]
• Mlle. van der, [105]
• Grammont, Chantilly lace region, [127]ff, [206], [296]
• Greeks, [26]
• Grenadine d’Alays, [139]
• Groothuis museum, [151]
• Gulleghem, [92]
• Gysenzeele, [251]
• Hainaut, Province of, [146]
• Haltaert, [170]
• Hansbeek, [255]
• Hebrews, [26]
• Heckelgem convent, [215]ff
• Henry, Mrs. Bayard, [92]
• Herzele lace region, [231]ff
• Holland, [30]
• Lace for Queen of, [207]
• Hoover, Herbert C., [18]
• Mrs. Herbert C., [193]
• Hours of lace workers, [65]ff [111]ff [217], [228], [255], [268]
• Imitations, [17], [41], [171], [183]
• of Chantilly, [132], [138]
• of Point d’Angleterre, [221]
• Import duty on lace, [90]
• Ireland, Thread from, [82]
• Iseghem, [98]
• Italy, [15], [36]
• Ancient bobbins in, [27]
• History of lace in, [29]
• Kefer-Mali, Mme., [17], [42], [215], [221]
• Kerxken lace region, [169]ff, [224]
• Knesselars, [251]
• Lace areas, List and Map of, [276]ff
• History of, [25]ff
• Methods of making, [279]ff
• Schools, [146], [147], [242]ff
• Amies de la Dentelle and, [15]ff, [76]
• Chantilly, [129], [131]
• Convent, [53]ff [105], [149]ff, [177], [190]ff, [205]ff, [215], [218]ff, [252]
• Coppens’, [256]
• Normal, [100], [110]ff, [152], [156]ff, [273]
• Trade Union, [265]ff
• Varieties of, see [Bobbin lace] and [Needle lace]
• Landsanter, [251]
• Liedekerke lace region, [215]ff
• Liedt’s collection, Baron, [151]
• Lille, [30], [34]
• Lootenhulle, [252], [255]
• Louis XIII, [32]
• Louis XIV, [31], [32], [33]
• Louis Philippe, [35]
• Lys River valley flax, [30], [79]ff
• Machelin, [252]
• Maertens, Professor, [148], [156]
• Maldeghem, [149]
• Malines (town) [30], [86], [248]
• Malines lace, [40], [100]
• Areas producing, [277]
• Bobbins for, [288], [289]
• Mesh design, [299]
• Method of making, [73]ff, [296]
• Old laces, [86]
• Point de Lille and, [71], [72]
• Map of lace areas, [276]
• Margharita of Italy, Queen, [15]
• Maria Loop, [110]
• Marie Antoinette, [33]
• Marie-Henriette, Duchess of Brabant, [249]
• Marie-Thérèse, Empress, [248]
• Menin, [87]
• Mercier, Cardinal, [239]
• Malines lace of, [75]
• Milan lace, [104]
• Guipure of, [114]
• Mullie, Mlle., [87], [89], [90]
• Museum, Brussels, [26], [42], [86]
• Courtrai, [85]
• Groothuis, [151]
• Needle lace, [37]ff, [201], [206], [208]ff, [273]
• Method of making, [279]ff
• Varieties of, [38]ff, [286]
• Needle Point lace, [44], [99], [162], [169], [189], [202], [223],
• [248], [249], [251], [252], [269], [270]
• Areas producing, [277]
• Method of making, [178]ff, [286]
• New York, [90]
• Nieuport, [87], [143], [271]
• Ninove, [128]
• Spinneries of, [82]
• Northcliffe’s posters, Lord, [240]
• Oedelem, [123]
• Oostcamp, [123], [149]
• Oosterzele, [251]
• Opbrakel convent, [189], [201]ff
• Oultremont, Comtesse Elizabeth d’, [17]
• Paisley spinneries, [82]
• Parc, Comte du, [231]ff
• Mme. du, [231]ff
• Paris lace market, [69], [90], [196], [223]
• Paulis, Mme. Lucie, [165], [279]
• Peat, Thread firm of, [93], [134]
• Persia, [26]
• Pittham, [109]
• Point d’ Alençon, [132]
• d’Angleterre, [181], [221], [241], [260]
• Method of making, [40], [223]ff
• de Bruges, [104]
• de Flanders, [224]ff
• de Gaze, [179], [283]
• d’Hollande, [72]
• Areas producing, [277]
• de Lille, [40]
• Areas producing, [277]
• Mesh design, [300]
• Method of making, [71], [296]
• de Milan, [104]
• de Paris, [40], [134]
• Areas producing, [277]
• Bobbins for, [289]
• Mesh design, [299]
• Method of making, [62], [296]
• Various uses of, [69], [71]
• de Venise, see [Venetian Point]
• Pompadour, Marquise de, [33]
• Poperinghe, [87], [271]
• Prices paid for lace, [88], [103], [117], [183], [196], [217], [254]
• Prices paid for supplies, [88], [93]
• Priestess of Hathor, [27]
• Puy, Thread firm of, [93]
• Reims, [31]
• Reticella, [286]
• Retreats, [154]ff
• Rippenhausen, Freiherr von, [121]
• Robertine, Sœur, [174]ff, [197]
• Rond mesh, [91]
• Roose, Mme., [151]
• Rosalie, [217]
• Rosaline lace, [40], [152], [221], [223], [237], [241], [249], [255]
• Areas producing, [277]
• Method of making, [226]ff, [292]
• Rose point lace, [39], [195], [292]
• Method of making, [286]
• Rubbens, Dr. Armand, [162], [267]ff
• Rudder, M. de, [193]
• Rulant, Adele, [172]
• Russian lace, [163]
• Ruysselede, [110], [252], [255]
• Ryeland, Mme., [149]
• St. Andre, [149]
• St. Croix, [149]
• St. Michel, [149], [153]
• St. Pierre des Calais, [132]
• Scheldewinkle convent, [252]
• Schools, see [Lace schools]
• Sedan, [31]
• Sharlaecken, Mme., [17]
• Sicily, [30]
• Sidonie, [178]
• Sister A., [190]ff
• Sister M., [220]ff
• Sister S., [195]
• Slock, Mlle., [118]
• Spain, Blonde lace for, [40], [134]
• Stéphanie, [257]ff, [265]ff
• Stoop, M. de, [79], [84]
• Syria, [26]
• Syssele, [149]
• Thielt lace region, [97]ff
• Thourout lace region, [97]ff
• Torchon lace, [40], [94], [99], [150], [152], [298]
• Areas producing, [277]
• Bobbins for, [289]
• Designs of, [301], [303]
• Teaching of, [162]
• Turnhout, [43], [135], [143], [144], [165]
• Lace region of, [49]ff
• Union Patriotique des Femmes Belges, [17]
• Valenciennes (town), [30], [34], [147]
• Valenciennes lace, [31], [40], [85], [89], [94], [99],[102], [105], [123],
• [149], [150], [151], [152], [155], [156], [163], [166], [248], [249]
• Areas producing, [79]ff, [87], [277]
• Bobbins for, [288]
• Duty on, [90]
• Mesh, [27], [41], [71], [90]
• Mesh design, [295]
• Method of making, [296]
• Prices paid for, [254]ff
• School for, [110], [252]
• Values of lace, [31], [88], [90], [225], [269]
• See also [Prices]
• Van Hoeimessen, Curé, [176]
• Venetian Point lace, [206]
• Medallions, [192], [210]
• Varieties of, [39]
• See also [Venise]
• Venice, [29], [30], [144], [206]
• Venise lace, [39], [169], [182], [189], [216], [237], [251], [252]
• Areas producing, [277]
• Method of making, [178], [192], [285], [286]
• “Queen’s Cloth” of, [193]ff
• Vynck, [252], [254]
• Wages paid lace workers, [44], [65], [73], [89], [92], [110], [112]ff, [124], [172],
• [218], [228], [250], [258], [268]
• Wevelghem, [92]
• Whitlock, Mrs. Brand, [16]
• Wynghene lace region, [97]ff
• Burgomaster of, [118]
• Ypres, [36], [87], [90], [143], [271]
• Zele, Lace school at, [76], [162], [265]ff

WOMEN of BELGIUM

TURNING TRAGEDY TO TRIUMPH

A Book of Gripping Human Interest

By CHARLOTTE KELLOGG

An absorbingly interesting narrative of personal experience by the only woman member of the Relief Commission, who tells in moving language the story of the unbreakable spirit sustaining the Belgians and the noble service the Belgian women have rendered and inspired in a land made desolate by war.

Introduction by HERBERT C. HOOVER,