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Modern Brussels, Point Gaze-Ghent-Duchesse Point-Mechlin (the Queen of Laces).
Magnificent laces are still made at Brussels, but almost wholly on a machine-made ground, the workers and merchants apparently finding the old hand-made ground unprofitable. The machine-made ground is cheap, and often of mixed flax and cotton instead of being of purel