As Queen Victoria was widowed at a fairly early age, I think that most of her lace was honiton. I'm pretty certain that this would have set a trend for Honiton Lace to be the most popular, but I couldn't swear to it.

BTW I love the tag line.... I'm definitely one of the 'assorted weirdos' LOL

Sue in a windy East Yorkshire
On 1 Apr 2010, at 10:49, Lora wrote:

On a bit of a Victorian tangent this morning I wondered what sort of lace would have been used for mourning items in Victorian England

****the fountain pen!
The prefered instrument of poets, dandys and other assorted weirdos.****

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