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 52
DEVON PILLOW LACE. 29 workers who helped, one is still alive at Beer, but there can be very few left. It is difficult to know for certain, since women were employed over a large area. Taking the age Umit as … fifteen years, and the date of the work 1837-8, the surviving workers would not be less than eighty-four, and it is unlikely that many were engaged so young. / The low water mark of Devon lace had been reached in 1901, when in the early spring the
Lace and lace making
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