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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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, is a specimen wereceived, with many others, of old Newport-Pagnel lace,given by Mrs. Bell, of that town, where her family hasbeen established from time immemorial. Mrs. Bell could-carry these laces back to the year 1780, when they werebequeathed to her father by an aged relative who had longbeen in the lace trade. The packets remain for the mostpart entire. The custom of storing lace was commonamong the country-people. Next in antiquity is Fig. 137, a lace of Flemish design,with the fine Brussels ground. This is among the North-amptonshire laces already alluded to. Many of the early patterns appear to have been run orworked in with the needle on the net ground (Fig. 138). In 1778, according to MCulloch,^ was introduced thepoint ground, as it is locally termed, from which perioddates the staple pillow lace trade of these counties. Thisground is beautifully clear, the patterns well executed : wedoubt if Fig. 139 could be surpassed in l)eauty by lace of Diet, of Commerce* Plate LXXXYI.
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English, Northamptonshike. Bobbin lace.—End of nineteenth century, Widths : If, 51 and 2 in. Photo by A. Dryden from a private collection. To face page 384. NOR THA MP TONS HIRE 385 any foreign manufacture. Mucli of this point ground wasmade by men. The principal branch of the lace trade was the makingof baby lace, as those narrow laces were called, mostspecially employed for the adorning of infants caps (Figs. Fis. 136.

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