The Romance of the Lace Pillow
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A 1919 history of pillow (bobbin) lace-making in Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire and neighbouring counties, with accounts of the Devon and Irish lace industries. It traces lace from early needle-point and bobbin laces of the Continent through the Flemish and Huguenot immigrations, smuggling, lace schools, and the Bucks Point, Maltese and Torchon periods, to the revival of the industry in the early twentieth century. Long chapters cover lace bobbins and their inscriptions, the lace tells (counting songs) and the lace-makers' holidays. It has many plates of lace, bobbins and portraits, plus appendices of bobbin inscriptions, a glossary and a song.
- Type
- Book
- Date
- 1919
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 337
- Archive notes
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