On Jun 9, 2005, at 13:44, Linda Walton wrote:
happened on this page about C19th Tiverton in Devonshire,
http://www.devon.gov.uk/library/locstudy/gaztiv.html
which includes a drawing from 1836 of "The Lace Manufactory, Tiverton"
(established 1816), and a short description of the lace industry there
in
1829.
An interesting quote from that description...
One machine will produce in one minute a quantity of net, which, by
the method in general use twenty years ago, would occupy a woman a
fortnight in making.
Thus was Walmart built :)
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Tamara P Duvall http://t-n-lace.net/
Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland)
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