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A 2001 booklet by Alan Brown drawing on John E. White's 1862 Royal Commission investigation into the children and young women employed in Nottingham's machine-lace finishing trades. It covers dressing rooms, warehouses, gauffring (bonnet front making), clipping and scolloping, private houses run by 'second-hand mistresses', and the wages, hours, heat, eyesight damage, illness, opiate use and lack of schooling the workers reported. Illustrated with photographs and engravings of lace machines, workrooms and lace samples; there are no weaving drafts.
- Type
- Book
- Date
- 2001
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 51
- Archive notes
- posted with written permission from the author.
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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