. 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 . Bobbin-Made Buckinghamshire Laces ; nineteenth century. 132 HISTORY OF HAND-MADE LACE. The manufacture of lace in Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire was consider-ably improved by the influx of French emigrants who took refuge in England atthe end of the eighteenth century. In the neighbourhoods of Burnham andDesborough especially the trade was much extended. In Sheahans History of Bucks, published in
. 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 . Bobbin-Made Buckinghamshire Laces ; nineteenth century. 132 HISTORY OF HAND-MADE LACE. The manufacture of lace in Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire was consider-ably improved by the influx of French emigrants who took refuge in England atthe end of the eighteenth century. In the neighbourhoods of Burnham andDesborough especially the trade was much extended. In Sheahans History of Bucks, published in 1862, the following places arementioned as being engaged in the trade:—Bierton (where both black and whitelace was made), Cuddington, Haddenham, Great Hampden, Wendover, Gawcott(where black lace was chiefly produced), Beachampton, Marsh Gibbon, Claydon,Oving (celebrated for its black and white laces), Bletchley, Lavendon, GreatSandford, Loughton, Milton Keynes, Moulsoe, Newton Blossomville, Olney,Winslow, and other villages. The narrow edgings so much used when tiny frilled caps were worn by babies, were made inBuckinghamshire, andknown in the trade asBaby lace. The dis-continuance of thi
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