. History of lace . stress cannot be laid on thread. Many well-meant efforts arethe importance of using fine linen entirely ruined by the coarse woolly 394 HISTORY OF LACE SUFFOLK. Suffolk lias produced bobbin-made laces of little artisticvalue. The patterns in most of the specimens in the Victoriaand Albert Museum collection are derived from simpleMechlin, Lille, and Valenciennes patterns. The make of thelace resembles that of BuckinQ;hamsliire laces, and that of theNorman laces of the present time. The entire collectiondisplays varied combinations of six ways of twisting andplaiting thread.
. History of lace . stress cannot be laid on thread. Many well-meant efforts arethe importance of using fine linen entirely ruined by the coarse woolly 394 HISTORY OF LACE SUFFOLK. Suffolk lias produced bobbin-made laces of little artisticvalue. The patterns in most of the specimens in the Victoriaand Albert Museum collection are derived from simpleMechlin, Lille, and Valenciennes patterns. The make of thelace resembles that of BuckinQ;hamsliire laces, and that of theNorman laces of the present time. The entire collectiondisplays varied combinations of six ways of twisting andplaiting thread. cotton thread used for what ought to bea fine make of lace. That good threadcan be got in Great Britam is evidentfrom the fact that the Brussels dealersemploy English thread, and sell it toVenice for the exquisite work of Burano. Needless to say, no English-man has attempted to make a bid forthe direct custom of the 8,000 lace-workers there employed. -• Catalogue of lace (Victoria andAlbert Museum). Plate English, Suffolk. Bobbin lace.—Nineteenth century. Resembling inferior Buckingham-shire, also Normandy and Saxony laces. Victoria and Albert ^luseum. To face page 39i. 395 CHAPTER XXXI. WILTSHIRE AND DORSETSHIRE. From Wiltshire and Dorset, counties in the eighteenth centuryrenowned for their lace, the trade has now passed away ; afew workers may yet be found in the retired sea-side villageof Charmouth, and these are diminishing fast. Of the Wiltshire manufactures we know but little, evenfrom tradition, save that the art did once prevail. Peuchetalludes to it. When Sir Edward Hungerford attackedWardour Castle in Wiltshire, Lady Arundel, describing thedestruction of the leaden pipes by the soldiers, says, Theycut up the pipe and sold it, as these mens wives in NorthWiltshire do bone lace, at sixpence a yard. One Mary Hurdle, of Marlborough, in the time ofCharles H., tells us in her Memoirs ^ that, being left anorphan, she was apprenticed by the chief magistrate to
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