PS was there a West midland lace industry?
Northamptonshire (machine-made lace) is in the East Midlands. Bedfordshire and
Buckinghamshire are usually included in East Anglia, but they are the two
counties below Northamptonshire.
Each area tended to have its own industries - Lancashire in the
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There doesn't seem to be any reference to lacemaking in the West Midlands.
About the only reference I've ever come across, was a label on some
(typical East Midland bone) bobbins in the window of an antique shop in
Broadway
For some time now I have looking at just when East midland Bobbins started
to be spangled.
I clearly know why Honiton bobbins were not spangled because they have to
thread the bobbin through whatever from time to time and a spangle would
be a darned nuisance to say the least. (It must be
