In my history research on lacemaking in the East Midlands there are numerous mentions of men in the area making lace during the 18/19th centuries. The 1777 militia list includes a number of lace men, dealers and workers below the age of 45years. An article from the Northampton & County Independent newspaper dated 1929 in which three sisters interviewed recalled their grandfather, Joseph Henson was a highly skilled lacemaker at the beginning of the 19th century. My favourite (though I can't lay my hands on the original at the moment) was the recollections of a little girl who remembered that after she had gone to bed at night her father, who had been working on the land all day, would take up her pillow and works some heads of lace for her.
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