Devon pillow lace: its history and how to make it (1908)
Moody, A. Penderel, Tompkins, A.E · London, New York [etc.] Cassell and company limited · leaf 37
CHAPTER II. Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And Hope without an object cannot live." — Coleridge. … temporary check. '-^ During the seventeenth and eighteenth cen- turies English lace-making was at its zenith, not only as regards the great number of workers employed, both men and women, but also for excellence of quality and design. ; West Country lace was known as Bath- Brussels, and it is still…
Lace and lace making
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