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A Dozen New England Caps
A Dozen New England Caps
Mabel Foster Bainbridge · Handicrafter, August-September 1929
Article · 3 pages
A 1929 article from The Handicrafter describing twelve antique New England caps (mostly babies' and night caps) collected by the author, with notes on the fabric, cut, and decoration of each. Materials include cross-barred muslin, cotton mull, lawn, and handkerchief linen, with trims of crochet lace, hand embroidery, seed-stitching, fagoting, and an Ipswich, Massachusetts bobbin lace cap. A page of line drawings illustrates the twelve caps, though the scan of it is badly degraded. The scan also ends with a short excerpt on the history of tapestry (Raphael cartoons and the Gobelins).
Lace-Maker's Pilgrimage in Devon
Lace-Maker's Pilgrimage in Devon
Article · 6 pages
A travel narrative by Mabel Foster Bainbridge about a visit to a South Devon fishing village (Beer) to study and buy bobbin lace. She describes village life, the cottage lace industry, the pillow, pricking and bobbin ('sticks') technique, her lessons with a local lace-maker, the dealers' shops, and the debated origins of Devon lace. Illustrated with photographs of Beer and a piece of modern Devonshire lace after a design by Marian Powys.

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