Queen Victoria's wedding gown took more than 100 lacemakers six months to make and the pattern was destroyed so it could not be duplicated. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Today, Bruges lace is popular with beginning lacemakers as it is easier to learn than most lace and is worked with very few bobbins comparatively speaking. ❋ Unknown (2009)
On the 'bertha' term: lacemakers refer to the deep flounce itself as a 'Bertha'. ❋ Unknown (2006)
The women are lacemakers, and lose their health by sedentary labour, for which they were very ill paid. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The bulk of his cargo in the main hold were simple laborers and tradesmen, journeymen fallen on hard times, smiths and vineyard-dressers and lacemakers, plunged into debt by illness or addiction or poor judgment, and now paying the forfeit of their debts with their own flesh. ❋ Hobb, Robin (1998)
In addition to those who chose prostitution as a full-time profession, many women engaged in certain low paying trades (specifically needlewomen, slopworkers, actresses, seamstresses, and lacemakers) resorted to "casual prostitution" in times of economic hardship. ❋ Robert F. Haggard (1993)
The people of Arras are uncommonly dirty, and the lacemakers do not in this matter differ from their fellow-citizens; yet at the door of a house, which, but for the surrounding ones, you would suppose the common receptacle of all the filth in the vicinage, is often seated a female artizan, whose fingers are forming a point of unblemished whiteness. ❋ An English Lady (N/A)
They say that the lacemakers of Nottingham don't have to be taught how to make lace because, as children, they somehow absorb most of the necessary knowledge in the bosom of their family, and I think the same thing is true of sons and brothers of football players. ❋ William Hanford Edwards (N/A)
Why, you might have quite a thriving colony of lacemakers at Kilmore -- the women could be working at their 'pillows' while the men are out fishing. ❋ Angela Brazil (1907)
The women are lacemakers, and lose their health by sedentary labor, for which they were very ill paid. ❋ Unknown (1901)
It included "tailoresses, plain and coarse sewing, shirt makers, book-folders and stickers, capmakers, straw-workers, dressmakers, crimpers, fringe and lacemakers," and other trades open to women "who were like oppressed." ❋ Samuel Peter Orth (1897)
The peasants of Rockbere, with flail and scythe, led the next column, followed by the banner of Honiton, which was supported by two hundred stout lacemakers from the banks of the Otter. ❋ Arthur Conan Doyle (1894)
There are a few paved streets with cafés and shops, as usual, but the most industrious inhabitants appear to be the lacemakers -- women seated at the doorways of the old houses, wearing the quaint horseshoe comb and white cap with fan-like frill, which are peculiar to Bayeux. ❋ Henry Blackburn (1863)
Young children of her own class were not exactly what her dream of usefulness had devised; but she had already a decided theory of education, and began to read up with all her might, whilst taking the lead in all the details of house taking, servant hiring, &c., to which her regular occupations of night school in the evening and reading to the lacemakers by day, became almost secondary. ❋ Charlotte Mary Yonge (1862)
"Lace and lacemakers are facts," continued Rachel; "but if the middle men were exploded, and the excess of workers drafted off by some wholesome outlet, the price would rise, so that the remainder would be at leisure to fulfil the domestic offices of womanhood." ❋ Charlotte Mary Yonge (1862)
Beginning with the A's, and working down a page a day, she sent every member a statement of the wrongs of the lacemakers, and the plans of the industrial establishment, at a vast expense of stamps; but then, as she calculated, one pound thus gained paid for two hundred and forty fruitless letters. ❋ Charlotte Mary Yonge (1862)
From the wooden balconies of the houses the young lacemakers nodded as he passed. ❋ Unknown (1840)
