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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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lis, in themaking of bone lace and point ; ^ and in 1775, sanctionedby the patronage of Queen Charlotte, the Princesses, thePrincess Amelia, and various members of the aristocracy,an institution was formed in Marvlebone Lane, and also inJames Street, Westminster, for employing the femaleinfiints of the poor in the blond and ))lack silk lace-makingand thread hices. More than 300 skirls attended the school. They gave, says the Annual lleijister, such a proof of theircapacity that many who had not been there more than sixmonths carried home to their parents from o.v. to 7S*. a month,with expectation of getting more as they improve. From this time we hear no more of the making of lace,either point or bone, in the metropolis. In 1753 prizes were awarded for guineas upon a gentlewoman for an 14 pairs of curious needlework point improvement in manufacture by ruffles. finishing a piece of lace in a very ■- One society confers a prize of ten elegant manner with knitting-needles. Plate LXXXV.
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English, Buckinghamshire. Bobbin lace.—First half of nineteenth century.Widths: 3, 3, 3, 4 in. The property of Mrs. Ellis, The Vicarage, Much Wenlock. To face page 374. 375 CHAPTER XXX. BEDFOEDSHIEE, BUCKIXGHAMSHIEE. ANDNOETHAMPTOXSHIRE.i BEDFOEDSHIEE. He wears a stuff whose thread is coarse and roundBut trimmed with curious lace.—Herbert. It would be a difficult matter now to determine when andby whom lace-making was first introduced into the countiesof Bedfordshire and Buckino^ham. Authors, for the mostpart, have been glad to assign its introduction to theFleminos - a nation to whose successive emioTations Eng;landowes much of her manufacturing^ oTcatness. Oriorinallv thelaces were of old, wavv, o-raceful Flemish desions. On the other hand, certain traditions handed down in thecounty villages of a good Queen who protected their craft,the annual festival of the workers—in the palmy days of thetrade a matter of great moment — combined with theresidence of that unhappy Queen, f

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