"Caïeteresses," from caïets, bobbins.
Exposition de Liège, par Chanoine Dubois, 1881.
Statistique du dép. de la Meuse-Inf., par le Citoyen Cavenne. An. X.
Liège in the seventeenth century numbered 1600 workers, and produced black and white laces which it exported to England, Germany and France. The rich clergy of the country also bought a large quantity. At the time of the Exhibition held there in 1881 the fabric had so declined that it was impossible to find a single piece of lace that had been made in the town.
Fil tiré, drawn and embroidered muslin-work so fine as to be classed with lace, was made in Dinant in the religious communities of the city and the "pays" of Dinant before the French Revolution. At Marche lace with flowers worked directly on the réseau is made, and the lace of Yorck is also imitated—a lace characterised by additions worked on to the lace, giving relief to the flowers.—Exposition de Liège, par Chanoine Dubois, 1881. The list of Belgian laces also includes "Les points de Brabant, plus mats, et plus remplis que les points de Flandres; les differentes dentelles de fantaisie, non classées, puis les grosses dentelles de Couvin, en soie noire, qui servaient jadis à garnir les pelisses des femmes de l'Entre Sambre-et-Meuse."—La Dentelle de Belgique, par Mme. Daimeries, 1893.