Re: [lace] Lace in India

[Anna Binnie]

I'm not sure if it still happens, in the mid 1970's the Indian 
government were trying to support rural industries by selling their 
wares in government sponsored shops in touristy areas of India, such as 
Delhi and what was Bombay. I bought a number of items in these stores, 
dresses embroidered with mirrors and a nightie and dressing gown hand 
embroidered with handmade bobbin lace trims. I still have many of the 
items I bought since they were very good quality and reasonably cheap 
for what they were. So 40 years ago bobbin lace was being made 
commercially even if on a small scale.

Anna from a very wet Sydney
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