Palliser, Bury, Mrs., 1805-1878, Jourdain, Margaret, Dryden, Alice · New York : C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 624
NITON 407 had, during the war, paid a hundred guineas a pound to thesmugglers for this highly-prized and then almost unattainablecommodity. Nor were the lace-workers gains less remunerative. Shewould receive as much as eighteen shillings a yard for theworkmanship alone of a piece of this elaborate… … MOXUME-NT OF Ladv DODDRIDGE. + 1614. (Exeter Cathedi-al.) { shortly before the establishment of the machine net manu-facture.^^ The price of lace was proportionately high. AHoniton veil would often cost a hundred guineas. The Flemish character of Fis^. 158 is unmistakable. The ^^ The manner of…
Lace and lace making
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