I agree with needlerun, but also the thought that went through my mind was Limerick?, though I'm wondering about Nottingham (Leavers) as some of the net sides have been stitched into (splitting the twists) rather than the careful darning which would be done by hand. At that point, my Nottingham-born husband walked in, took one look and flippantly said, "that looks Irish to me"! His knowledge of lace goes as far as being the grandson of a lace runner (mending the nets and darning ends in as they came off the machine is what I was told that meant; Phil's maternal grandmother was a lovely lady who died in 1982, the year after we got married) and, as a descendant of Bedfordshire lacemakers on his father's side , being able to do cloth stitch, so take that remark as lightly as it was made!
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