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Early samplers-Lace worn by Queen Elizabeth; by the early Stuarts-Extravagant use of lace in time of Charles II.-William and Mary's lace bill.
Even at the risk of being considered utterly unpatriotic, I cannot give much more than faint praise to the lace-making of England up to the present date, when notable efforts are at last being made to rai