Old lace : a handbook for collectors; an account of the different styles of lace, their history, characteristics & manufacture (1908)
Jourdain, Margaret · London : B. T. Batsford · leaf 278
ts well and round filed, canted, andsharpened. To a large extent the supply of pins was received from France tillabout 1626, in which year the manufacture was introduced into Gloucestershire byJohn Tilsby. His business flourished so that he soon gave employment to 1,500persons. In 1636 the…
Lace and lace making
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