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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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ruck system, many of the more Sidmouth. The latter has also received respectable shops giving one-half in the freedom of the City of London money, the remaining sixpence to be for a beautiful lace fan, her sprigs taken out in tea or clothing, sold often being the finest and most exquisite considerablj above their value. Other models of flowers and birds it is manufacturers—to their shame, be it possible to produce in lace. A third told—pay their workers altogether in medal was won by the Italian laces grocery, and should the lace-maker, at Beer. from illness or any other cause, require ^* Those held at Sidbury and Sidford an advance in cash, she is compelled are very successful, and the children, to give work to the value of fourteen- ranging in age from nine to fifteen, pence for every shilling she receives. come regularly for their lace. It is Some few houses pay their workers in interesting to watch the improvement money (,1875). in the work of the flys, the first Plate LXXXIX.
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00 (D-1-= P^ c3■7:3 O o Id 2 !=i W l-HCO O P5 O pq <J KQ Sft o iz; To /oct ;>«r/( 410. JAPAN 417 Italian laces made at Beer is a new brancli, established \>jMiss Bowdon, and ably carried on by Miss Audrey Trevelyanof Seaton. This Italian lace is made entirely on the pillow^and the way in which the women of Beer have picked up thestitches and mode of making speaks volumes for theirskilfulness and adaptability. There are still a good numberof workers left in this most picturesque village. ^^ A beautiful county and a beautiful art have come downto us hand in hand. Let us do our best to prevent the onebeing marred and the other lost, and keep them both togetherto be a joy and a pleasure for all time. JAPAN. The versatile Japanese have copied the Honiton methodof making bobbin lace. The Government have encourageda school at Yokohama for pillow lace making, under thesupervision of an English lady, where they turn out lace ofa distinctive Japanese character. lesson, a

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