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The manufacture of a piece of net like this, eighteen inches square, 

 cost 176, and a Honiton veil often cost a hundred guineas. 



At the time of the marriage of Queen Victoria, the manufacture of 

 Honiton lace was so depressed that it was with difficulty the neces- 

 sary number of lace-workers could be found to execute the wedding 



Fia. 10. Black Lace of Batbus. 



lace. Her dress cost 1,000, and was composed entirely of Honiton 

 sprigs, connected on the pillow by a variety of open-work stitches. 

 Fig. 11 is one of the honeysuckle sprigs from a flounce afterward 

 made for her Majesty. "The bridal dresses of their royal high- 

 nesses the Princess Royal, the Princess Alice, and the Princess of 



