A travel essay from The Art Journal describing a visit to a convent lace-making school in the Rue des Aiguilles, Bruges, run by the Sisters of the Pauline order. It describes the pillow-lace workers (mostly poor girls from age seven), their pay, the laces made (Valenciennes, guipure, Duchesse, Brussels, Torchon), the thread supply, and the water-globe lamps used for evening work. It also gives a short history of Flemish lace, including Mechlin, Valenciennes, and Brussels point and the differences in réseau twisting between towns. Illustrated with engravings of the school and street and a photograph of a Bruges lace-maker.