Pillow-Lace Working in Bedfordshire
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A short illustrated newspaper article from 1866 describing how pillow lace is made in Bedfordshire and other southern English counties. It explains the pillow, the parchment pattern, pins and decorated bobbins weighted with glass beads, and how the worker moves the bobbins by hand. It also covers the slow pace of the work, the low and falling wages, child labor, and the expected decline of the craft against cheap imitation lace. An engraving shows a lace worker at her pillow.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- February 10, 1866
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 2
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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