Popular Mechanics has put their archives on line, so of course I had to do
a search for lace. Most of the articles were about shoe laces and leather
work, a couple were for using lace as textures on wood. But there were
these three:
March 1876, page 521 - an article about the lace and history, taken mostly
from Bury Pallister's book.
March 1876, page 769 - an article about liquor sumptuary laws. The author
cites a 1662 law in Virginia forbidding the importation of lace and one
from 1634 in Massachusetts forbidding the wearing of lace.
August 1920, page 131 - directions for making a "lace cutter". It says
safety razors are best for cutting lace but the housewife doesn't like to
use them for fear of cutting her fingers! Now I know that most of this info
is not new to us but to find in Popular Science was surprising. And looking
at the old issues has been a lot of fun, especially the articles about what
were, then, new inventions. I recognised some that were precursors to
things were use now, and some that I'm glad never caught on!
Here's the page with the search results:
http://www.popsci.com/results?query=lace
Cherry Knobloch
Chesapeake, Va USA
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