. History of lace. ved, burnt, or Caroline, Let no false Lover win stained on the bobbin, while events of my heart, To me, my dear, you may general interest were often commem- come near, Lovely Betty, Dear orated by the addition of a new Mother, and so forth.—R. E. Head, bobbin. The spangles, jingles (or Some notes on Lace-Bobbins. The gingles) fastened to the end of the JReliquary, July, have a certain interest; a waist- 392 HISTORY OF LACE The Exhibition of 1851 gave a sudden impulse to thetraders, and from that period the lace industry rapidlydeveloped. At this time was introduc
. History of lace. ved, burnt, or Caroline, Let no false Lover win stained on the bobbin, while events of my heart, To me, my dear, you may general interest were often commem- come near, Lovely Betty, Dear orated by the addition of a new Mother, and so forth.—R. E. Head, bobbin. The spangles, jingles (or Some notes on Lace-Bobbins. The gingles) fastened to the end of the JReliquary, July, have a certain interest; a waist- 392 HISTORY OF LACE The Exhibition of 1851 gave a sudden impulse to thetraders, and from that period the lace industry rapidlydeveloped. At this time was introduced the Malteseguipures and the plaited laces, a variety grafted on theold Maltese (Fig. 147). Five years later appears the firstspecimen of the raised plait, now so thoroughly establishedin the market. At the time Queen Victorias trousseau wasmade, in which only English lace was used, the prices paidwere so enormous that men made lace in the fields. Inthose days the parchments on which the patterns were Fi7. Plaited Lace.—(Bedford.) pricked were worth their weight in gold ; many wereextremely old and their owners were very jealous of otherscopying their patterns. But, of late years, we hear of solittle store being set by these parchments that they wereactually boiled down to make glue. The decay which threatened almost total extinction ofthe industry belongs to the last twenty years. The con-tributory causes were several, chiefly the rapid developmentof machinery, which enabled large quantities to be sold atlower rates than the hand-workers could starve on, while thequality of the manufactured goods was good enough for the NOR THAMPTONSHIRE 393 large public that required lace to last hut a short competition, the higher wages required by all, andthe many new employments opening to women took awaythe young people from the villages. In 1874 more thanthirty young lace-women left a village of four hundredinhabitants to seek work elsewhere. The old workers gave
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