A history of hand-made lace : dealing with the origin of lace, the growth of the great lace centres, the mode of manufacture, the methods of distinguishing and the care of various kinds of lace (1900)
Jackson, Emily, 1861- · London : L. Upcott Gill ; New York : C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 176
enty-four boys to read, write, and cast accounts, and fortwenty-four girls to knit, spin, and make bone lace, and, in consequence, thetrade of that place flourished again, even French authors speaking of the townwith its manufactures de dentelles au fuseau, which, however, they say are inferieurea… … declared that hundreds in this little town (Olney) are upon the point of starving-,and that the most unremitting industry is barely sufficient to keep them from it.Probably some change in fashion had caused this distress. There were lace schools at Hanslope, and children taught there could…
Lace and lace making
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