70 HISTORY OP LACE. Lace-making is the sole manual employment of the women of Ceylon. We mention it in this place because the specimens of thread pillow lace from Point de dalle and Candy bear a striking resemblance to the Maltese. (Fig. 37.) A lace of similar charac ter has also been successfully made in the missionary schools at Madras. Fig. 37. ibISs m. Pillow lace. Ceylon.