. 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 . s of the bobbin. Queen Catherine of Aragon did much in introducing and encouraging the lace-making industry in Buckinghamshire, as she did that of the neighbouring counties ofBedfordshire and Northamptonshire. It flourished exceedingly, until in 1623 apetition was addressed to the High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire from Great Marlow,showing the distress of the cottagers from the bone lace-making being
. 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 . s of the bobbin. Queen Catherine of Aragon did much in introducing and encouraging the lace-making industry in Buckinghamshire, as she did that of the neighbouring counties ofBedfordshire and Northamptonshire. It flourished exceedingly, until in 1623 apetition was addressed to the High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire from Great Marlow,showing the distress of the cottagers from the bone lace-making being muchdecayed. In 1626 Sir Henry Borlase founded and endowed the Free School ofGreat Marlow, for twenty-four boys to read, write, and cast accounts, and fortwenty-four girls to knit, spin, and make bone lace, and, in consequence, thetrade of that place flourished again, even French authors speaking of the townwith its manufactures de dentelles au fuseau, which, however, they say are inferieurea celle de F land res. In the seventeenth century lace-making flourished in Buckinghamshire. Later,a petition from the poet Cowper to Lord Dartmouth in favour of the lace-makers A DICTIONARY OF LACE. 131. declared that hundreds in this little town (Olney) are upon the point of starving-,and that the most unremitting industry is barely sufficient to keep them from some change in fashion had caused this distress. There were lace schools at Hanslope, and children taught there could maintainthemselves, without further assistance, at eleven or twelve years of age. It isinteresting to note that boys were taught the handicraft as wrell as the girls, andmany men when grownup followed no otheremployment, whichseems to us an economicmistake, as there areso many trades suitablefor men, so few forwomen as homeworkers. The lacemade at Hanslope inthe eighteenth centurywas valued at from six-pence to two guineas ayard, and the lace tradewas most important,800 out of a populationof 1275 being en
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