Rawert's Report upon the Industry in the Kingdom of Denmark. 1848.
"The Great Recess."
Two-thirds of a yard.
Dated 1643.
"Tönder lace, fine and middling, made in the districts of Lygum Kloster, keeps all the peasant girls employed. Thereof is exported to the German markets and the Baltic, it is supposed, for more than 100,000 rixdollars (£11,110), and the fine thread must be had from the Netherlands, and sometimes costs 100 rixdollars per lb."—Pontoppidan. Economical Balance. 1759.