This piece of information stems I believe from Liz Bartlett's book 'Lace
Villages'. How reliable this information is I wouldn't like to say. Its
supposedly the villages of Potterspury and Paulerspury, Northamptonshire
around 1891. The said diary in the book mentions Mr Harrison - is this the
Rev.J.B. Harrison whose wife Ella was taking an active interest in the lace
makers of Paulerspury during the period 1878 to 1910?
I feel that at the time mentioned the need for secrecy over family prickings
had past. Mrs Harrison was responsible for reviving the industry and it was
her who rescued the large collection of prickings from Mrs Rose the widow of
the Paulerspury lace dealer - as she feared Mrs Rose would boil them down
for glue.
Diana in Northants
----- Original Message -----
From: "Linda Walton" <linda.wal...@dsl.pipex.com>
To: <l...@dont.panix.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 9:14 AM
Subject: Re: [lace] Forgetting your pattern (was RE: yardage - speed)
On 22/06/2011 00:36, Helen Bell wrote:
[snip]
It's known that if a girl was marrying a man from another
village, she would have to stop lacemaking for 2 years so that she forgot
her pattern, and not take it to the other village, and then she'd start
to
learn the new pattern after 2 years.
[snip]
Please will you tell me the source of this information?
I'm interested to know if it relates to a particular place and time, or
was a more general custom. How was it enforced?
Linda Walton,
(in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, U.K., where it looks like being another
day of sunshine and showers).
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