Lorelei, I agree completely. I have never read anywhere that the lace made in Buckingham in 1750 was point ground. What made me pause on this article was that Mr. Heathcoat supposedly learned to make lace from the Buckingham lace makers around 1753 and imitated the point ground on his Loughborough machine. But the machine was not made until 1809, and we know that point ground was made before that. So could he have tried, unsuccessfully, to imitate other grounds, like Mechlin, earlier? and not until the point ground was made by hand could he make it by machine? Also, we have no idea what background Mr. Smiles had for writing his article in 1859. As usual, more questions than answers. - âKarenâ
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