I was born and brought up in Luton during the 50s and hat making was a
fairly big industry at that time.
My Mum did some piece work in some of my childhood years.
We took my mum for a trip around the museum a couple of years ago, firstly
on the ground floor to see the lace and then upstairs to s
This thread reminded me of a lacemaker in my research. I've pasted the
passage below.
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"Born circa 1829 at Northill in Bedfordshire, Mary Tingey
was the daughter of Thomas & Sarah Tingey. Mary spent most of her life in
Bedfordshire being mainly employed as a house servant. In the 1851 census sh
This reminded me of a talk to Essex Lace Makers (UK) given
some years ago by Veronica - it was so interesting, and the items she brought
with her were wonderful.
Hi Carol et al.
I remember that talk by Veronica Main and it certainly was fascinating. Quite
recently I discovered that the village
Hi Arachnes All,
This reminded me of a talk to Essex Lace Makers (UK) given
some years ago by Veronica - it was so interesting, and the items she brought
with her were wonderful. She did say, however, that the straw plaiters had
to wet the straw before being able to plait it, and this was done
Straw plaiters made long strips of plaited straw for the manufacture of the
bonnets that were in fashion at the time. Many of the plaiters were, at one
time, lace makers but they made more money plaiting straw. I too had an
ancestor, who, at the age of ten, was supporting her younger sister an
Marjorie writes:
When youngsters were making lace, they sat still where they could be
supervised; but plaiting was a craft which could be done while
standing up or walking about. Plaiters could therefore go roaming
around the countryside, getting up to goodness knew what, while
plaiting ...
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> On Behalf Of David C COLLYER
> Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2013 1:48 PM
> To: lace@arachne.com
> Subject: [lace] Straw Plaiters
>
> Dear Friends,
> I'm currently doing some family history research for one of us, and
> find that IF her female rela
Dear David,
I am indebted to Jean Leader for the gift of a 192-page book from England
by Veronica Main "Swiss Straw Work", self-published in 2003, ISBN
0-9541795-0-1. If you do a search of her name and the subject, you should be
able
to find out how to order it directly from Veronica. I
There is an article about straw plaiting in Luton, and Bedfordshire here.
It is really very interesting and illuminating about a trade that was
similar to lace making. There are many parallels. For instance, you could do
it
in cottages. Italians did it better. The disruption of trade with I
Hallo David, don't know if it is the same thing, but my Gt Aunt Polly made what
we called straw dollies which hung in the house and were made with the current
years straw and replaced the previous years dollies which were then burnt, I
think it was something to do with getting a good crop the n
http://www.strawcraftsmen.co.uk/
Interesting site on traditional straw craftspeople.
At some rural craft fairs, there is usually someone demonstrating tradional
"corn dollies" and "symbols", sometimes used to ward off evil spirits.
Agnes Boddington - Elloughton UK
Dear Friends,
I'm currently
Dear David, I'm taking a stab here, but millinery straw braid would be my
guess. Straw hats were common for summer use, and at least some were made of
straw braid, perhaps a half inch wide, although I'm sure it varied, which was
then sewn together over a form for the proper shape. Such a straw
I think they made hats.
At the Luton Museum, which I visited for lace purposes, there was an awful
lot about straw plaiting and the hat industry. In fact, I got the feeling
that people might move between lace making and straw plaiting depending on
what was "hot".
Devon
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Dear Friends,
I'm currently doing some family history research for one of us, and
find that IF her female relatives were not Lace Makers, then they
were Straw Plaiters.
Can someone please tell me exactly what they produced? Some of these
were as young as 5 and 7 years of age on the censuses!!
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