Charlotte Kellogg travels from village to village across Belgium, from the lace children of Turnhout to Courtrai, early home of Valenciennes lace, describing the pillows, bobbins and patterns of each local tradition. She tells how the lace committee of Brussels kept thousands of women working through the German occupation, and weighs the cost of an art that left girls unable to sew or darn.
A warm record of a craft and the women who kept it alive, for lacemakers and historians of wartime Belgium. Download the free EPUB.