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Title: History of lace
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Palliser, Bury, Mrs., 1805-1878 Jourdain, Margaret Dryden, Alice
Subjects: Lace and lace making
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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and there are now aboveone hundred thousand in England who get their living by it,and earn by mere Lal)Our £500,000 a year, according to thelowest computation that can be made; and the Personsemployed on it are, for the most part, Women and childrenwho have no other means of Subsistence. The English arenow arrived to make as good lace in Fineness and all otherrespects as any that is wrought in Flanders, and particularlysince the last Act, so great an improvement is made thatway that in Buckinghamshire, the highest prized lace theyused to make w^as about eight shillings per yard, and nowthey make lace there of above thirty shillings per yard, andin Dorsetshire and Devonshire they now make lace worth sixpound per yard. . . . . . . . The Lace Manufacture in England is thegreatest, next to the woollen, and maintains a multitudeof People, which otherwise the Parishes must, and thatwould soon prove a heavy burthen, even to those concernedin the Woollen Manufacture. On the Resolution, which
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