Most of what I've learnt has been from Dr John Yallop's thesis, History
of the Honiton Lace Industry, where he went back to primary sources for
his information. The late Alan Brown (I think Sheila, his widow, is on
Arachne) wrote a couple of books - I think one was called something like
"Suffer the Children" which looked at the Inspectors Reports from the
time, just after the Act was brought in and they were ensuring it was
kept to. Basically, the Act meant that those dames who didn't teach the
Rs as well were out of a job! Liz Bartlett in Lace Villages recorded how
the children and grandchildren of the old lacemakers she spoke to were
very wary of giving information because of the stigma of the poverty
attached to lacemaking which caused the equipment to go on the bonfire -
they didn't want to inflict the life on anyone else. Mrs Treadwin - I
think her book is Antique Point and Honiton Lace, records the drop in
prices for lace and the number of lacemakers - she was a dealer herself
and contemporary to the late 19th century lacemakers, so knew what she
was talking about.
I've got both Alan's book and Mrs Treadwin's - but both would take some
digging out to double check the titles.
In message <[email protected]>, [email protected] writes
This is very interesting, two different views of the same thing, and
something that I have often wondered about myself.
Does anyone know of research that has been done on this subject?
Devon
[email protected] writes:
I think you will find that this applies after the passing of the
Education Act in the late 19th century (can't recall the exact year but
somewhere around
and
Kathleen Harris <[email protected]> writes
I would like to address Lorelei's comment that the lacemakers working
by
hand were often illiterate. My understanding is quite different. In the
English villages
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