Hello Diana
Some of the plaited straw work is delicate enough to be called lace
anyway. On a couple of occasions Lace Guild Conventions have included
straw plaiting displays and IIRC as a taster workshop also. But you
are right, straw plaiting (mostly for hats) went alongside BL in
Bedfordshire.
Brenda
On 5 Feb 2007, at 08:20, Diana Smith wrote:
Hello Noelene
In my research I have an instance of a 'Straw plaiter' who later
became a 'lacemaker'. Maybe the person you found was a worker of both
if they are both recorded.
There is a very distant bell ringing in my head of seeing somewhere a
sample of lace made from straw. Another bell !! I recall reading
recently that some lacemakers did straw plaiting in the winter when
the light was too poor to make lace, which sounds very logical.
Diana in Northamptonshire
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Subject: [lace] Bedfordshire lace term
While doing some Google searches recently, I came across the name of
the
wife of a migrant to Australia in the early 1800's. She and her
husband,
and several children, migrated from Bedfordshire, and her occupation
was
given as "Str--ais Plattes, (lacemaker)". The missing characters
would be
caused by difficult in reading the hand writing.
I assume the "plattes" could be Bedfordshire lace plaits, but can
anyone
fill in the blanks?
Noelene in Cooma
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