[lace] Findings - the Material Culture of Needlework and Sewing

In a message dated 3/15/2008 5:26:43 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I visited the needle museum in Redditch, Worcestershire. The museum was a working needle factory until 1958. What an enlightenment. I'll never look at needles in the same way again! (Those who sharpened

[lace] Findings - the Material Culture of Needlework and Sewing

In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes At its peak, Redditch supplied 90 per cent of the world market for needles. It might surprise you, but until fairly recently Studley (the area in which the Forge Mill Needle Museum is - Redditch is the large town next door, so to speak)