While researching lace tells for St. Catherineâs Day, I came across, again,
the similar usage in the Shakespearean quote:
O, fellow, come, the song we had last night.â
Mark it, Cesario, it is old and plain;
The spinsters and the knitters in the sun
And the free maids that weave their thread
It's interesting that this question has come up now, as I was looking through
some of the indexes on the Worcester (UK) Records Office website the other day
(can't remember the exact url now, and I'm away from home at the preserved
railway where I volunteer at the moment), going through the lists
What Thomas Wright actually wrote is
â "â¦bone-lace it is named, because first made with bone (since wooden)
bobbins.â
In the wardrobe accounts of Queen Elizabethâs day the terms âbone laceâ
(which was made with a fine thread) and âbobbin laceâ (which was made with
a coarser
Hello all!
I am researching the development of the lace industry at the moment, and I have
a fairly extensive bibliography, but there is one reference that I have only
seen in one place.
In Thomas Wright’s “Romance of the Lace Pillow,” on page 8 he makes a
distinction between bone lace as
Elena,
I would take this with a grain of salt. Some of the inventories that
actually mention bone lace are likely to have been metal laces, which were
certainly not "fine" in terms of diameter of the thread.
Kim
In Thomas Wrightâs âRomance of the Lace Pillow,â on page 8 he makes a
