Palliser, Bury, Mrs., 1805-1878, Dryden, Alice, Jourdain, Margaret · London : Sampson Low, Marston · leaf 622
HONITON 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… … ilONUJiE.NT OF Lady Doddridge. + 1G14. (Exeter Cathedral.) shortly before the establishment of the machine net manu-facture.^* The price of lace was proportionately high. A Honiton veil would often cost a hundred guineas. The Flemish character of Fio;. 158 is unmistakable. o The The manner of…
Lace and lace making -- History
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