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The lace samples from Ipswich, Massachusetts, 1789-1790 : history, patterns, and working diagrams for 22 lace samples preserved at the Library of Congress / Karen H. Thompson

Samples of lace made in Ipswich, Massachusetts, were obtained in the course of the first U.S. Census, in 1789, and stored among the papers of Alexander Hamilton, who had been charged with taking the ...
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Cluny lace: keeping traditional manufacturing alive

I’m the ninth generation of my family to be in the lace trade. The Cluny Lace factory, near Nottingham, was built in the 1880s, but we had machines in Ilkeston and Long Eaton before then. By the 1730s ...
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Lace work : a handbook, illustrated

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