Once of the books which bought at a Guiders' training weekend a while ago
was a facsimile copy of "How Girls can Help to Build up the Empire - the
handbook for Girl Guides" by Miss Baden-Powell and Sir Robert Baden-Powell
(1912). It's the first Guide handbook, the equivalent of "Scouting for
Boys". ANyway, apart from being quite amusing to read these days :o) I
found the following paragraph in "Camp Fire Yarn. No. 23 - Housewifery"
"Pillow lace needs a little more attention [than sewing], but it is a
lovely art which girls can easily master. I [Agnes B-P] was taught to make
the flowers of Honiton Lace by a little Irish girl, and the variations you
can invent are endless. You would find a good sale for insertion lace of
the Torchon patterns. Make your own pillow, and buy some cheap bobbins to
begin learning with, and do not try fine work at first."
So there you go. At the very least, writing this email has distracted me
from Physics for a little bit!
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Helen in Somerset, UK
"Forget the formulae, let's make lace"
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