Palliser, Bury, Mrs., 1805-1878, Jourdain, Margaret, Dryden, Alice · New York : C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 604
y new employments opening to women took awaythe young people from the villages. In 1874 more thanthirty young lace-women left a village of four hundredinhabitants to seek work elsewhere. The old workers gaveup making good laces and supplied the popular demand withMaltese, which grew more and more… … RAISED Plait.—Bedford. improving the local manufacture of pillow lace, of providinglace-workers with greater facilities for the sale of their workat more remunerative prices. Its aim is also to save the olddesigns of the point lace and discourage the coarse Maltese,to get new designs copied from…
Lace and lace making
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