| FACING PAGE |
| H.M. Queen Elizabeth of Belgium, | Frontispiece |
| Fifteenth Century Portrait | 32 |
| Showing heavy brocade as yet unrelieved by linen or lace trimming. | |
| Portrait of Charles IX (1570) | 33 |
| Linen collar showing picot edge made with the needle. | |
| Portrait Towards End of Sixteenth Century | 40 |
| Showing collar ornamented with bobbin-made cluny. | |
| Anne of Austria by Van Dyck | 41 |
| About 1635, cluny lace made with bobbins. | |
| AbbÉ Berraly School, Turnhout | 56 |
| General view. | |
| Nine-Year Children Making Point de Paris | 57 |
| Point de Paris Class | 64 |
| On dark days lamps are lighted behind bottles filled with water, the rays passing through, fall in spotlights on the cushions. | |
| Winding Bobbins for the Children | 65 |
| Point de Lille, or Point D’Hollande | 72 |
| Mesh showing “Esprits” or dots characteristic of this bobbin lace. | |
| End of a Point de Paris Scarf About 2½ Yards Long on Which Colette Worked One Year | 73 |
| In the AbbÉ Berraly School, Colette, 16-Years Old, Works with 1,000 Bobbins | 73 |
| Belgian Lace Meshes(Plate I) | 80 |
| After Pierre Verhagen in “La Dentelle Belge.” | |
| Belgian Lace Meshes (Plate II) | 81 |
| After Pierre Verhagen in “La Dentelle Belge.” | |
| Bobbin Laces | 88 |
| Malines, Point de Paris, Valenciennes. | |
| Cushion Cover Representing Belgium’s Gratitude to America for Bread | 89 |
| Point de Paris lace combined with linen. The lower right-hand centerpiece shows the rose design, emblem of Queen Elizabeth. | |
| Bobbin Laces | 104 |
| Torchon, Cluny, Old Flemish, Binche. | |
| Table Cloth Showing Arms of the Allies | 105 |
| Cut linen with squares of Venise surrounded by filet and cluny; Venise made with the needle; cluny with bobbins. | |
| A “Marie Antoinette” in Chantilly Lace | 128 |
| Made with bobbins, near Grammont. | |
| Cushion Cover | 129 |
| Center Venise, borders Valenciennes, lace executed by 12 workers in one month, embroidery and mounting by four women in two months; design by M. de Rudder. | |
| Tea Cloth | 129 |
| Point de Paris, cock design. | |
| Lace Makers of Bruges | 144 |
| Bruges and Similar Bobbin Laces | 145 |
| Lace Normal School, Bruges. Beginner’s Class | 152 |
| Symbolic color pattern on left-hand easel; demonstration bobbins attached to colored threads at right. | |
| Bed Cover in Duchesse or Brussels Lace | 153 |
| Made with bobbins; executed in Flanders by 30 women in three months; design by the Lace Committee. | |
| Rosaline, which Closely Resembles Bruges | 160 |
| Details for Bruges Lace | 160 |
| Made with bobbins on round cushion. | |
| Doily Set in Point de Paris in the “Animals of the Allies” Design, Executed at Turnhout | 161 |
| Point de Flandres or Flanders Lace | 176 |
| Flowers made with bobbins, mesh with needle; designs by the Lace Committee. | |
| Handkerchief in Needle-Point | 177 |
| Made near Alost. Both mesh and flowers made with needle. | |
| Detail Showing Seven Different Filling-in Stitches | 177 |
| Venise Designs by the Brussels Lace Committee | 180 |
| Handkerchief and Jewel Boxes; Flanders and Venise Over Satin and Velvet | 181 |
| Venise Banquet Cloth Presented by the Lace Committee to H.M. Queen Elizabeth on Her Return from Exile | 192–193 |
| Design by M. de Rudder; executed by 30 best Venise-makers in Belgium in six months. | |
| Cushion Cover in Venise | 196 |
| Pekinese dog; design by M. Allard. | |
| Table Center in Flanders with Center and Border of Venise | 197 |
| Design by Lace Committee; executed in West Flanders by five workers in 15 days. | |
| “The Tourney” Banquet Cloth | 208 |
| Design reproducing a mediÆval painting in Tournai, executed in Venise lace by 10 workers in one month, mounting and embroidery by five workers in one month. Price in Brussels, 1,000 francs. | |
| “Arms of Allies” Cushion Cover in Venise, with Details in Flanders | 209 |
| Needle-Point Scarf Expressing Gratitude of Belgium to Holland. Presented to H.M. Queen Wilhelmina | 216–217 |
| Executed by 30 workers in eight months. | |
| Bobbin Laces | 224 |
| Malines; Application, flowers sewn on tulle; Duchesse, with Needle-Point insertion. | |
| Application Details to be Sewed on Tulle | 225 |
| Upper flower shows open spaces left by bobbin worker for needle worker; lower flower shows both bobbin and needle work completed. | |
| Wedding Gift of Mr. Hoover to Mrs. Page | 240 |
| Executed in Venise and Flanders lace by 30 women working three months. American eagles with outspread wings, protecting the Belgian Lion enchained in the four corners. | |
| Flanders—Needle Mesh, Bobbin Flowers | 240 |
| Venise Lace Center, Border of Valenciennes | 241 |
| Lace executed in Flanders by 40 women in two months; embroidery and mounting in Brussels by four women in three months. | |
| Valenciennes, Square Mesh | 241 |
| Fan in Needle-Point | 256 |
| Executed by three women in six weeks. “Shields of the Allies,” design drawn by M. Knoff for the Lace Committee. | |
| Eighteenth Century Marriage Veil in Needle-Point, Belonging to the Comtesse Elizabeth D’Oultremont | 257 |
| It would take 40 workers about a half year to copy this veil. | |
| At Work on Details of a Needle-Point Scarf to be Presented to Queen Elizabeth | 268 |
| Needle Lace Class-Room in the Trade Union Lace School at Zele | 268 |
| Needle-Point Illustration for the Fable of the Fox and the Grapes | 269 |
| In the Zele Lace School. Joining Details of the Needle-Point Scarf Presented to Queen Elizabeth | 269 |
