LACE AND EMBROIDERY.
BRUSSELS, June 8. When the Duke and Duchess of Brabant vDit Bruges shortly they are to receive a nodding present that would make many a woman jealous. Tt is a superb bedspread in hand-made lace and embroidery worked after an ancient design. The centre is a medallion in Bruges lace encircled with Binelte lace, after which there is a hand of embroidery snriounded with old Valenciennes lace in varied points. Then an eight-point-ed star in Dtiehesse point. At the head of tlie bedspread are tbe embroidered arms of the Duke ;.nd j Duchess on a purple and ermine background. the whoi'e surmounted by the royal crown, while the arms of the nine provinces of Belgium are embroidered: at the foot. The outside edge is com-j posed of eighteenth-century Flemish 1 guipure. j To contain this treasure M. Louis! Beyaert has designed a carved wood | case on which lace designs, the initials of the Duke and Duchess, and the arms 1 of the provinces hare been skilfully intermingled,
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Hokitika Guardian, 1 August 1927, Page 4
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170LACE AND EMBROIDERY. Hokitika Guardian, 1 August 1927, Page 4
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