Hello Devon, cc Diana and everyone Your mention of what the lace schools were like brought to mind Alan Brown's poignant publication, "Take the Children..." https://www2.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/books/ba_2_2000.pdf
I found this informative message in the lace mail archive, about lace schools per research in Northamptonshire as Diana wrote: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg40674.html I haven't anything to offer about the lace tell, sorry to say. On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 5:18 AM, DevonThein <[email protected]> wrote: > ....... I am > undecided about whether these lace schools were Dickensian work houses > where > children were forced in silence to work all day adhering to rigorous > standards > of quality, or whether they were more like kindergartens where they were > inspired with rhymes and competitions while their harried elders tried to > get > something reasonably salable out of them. > > > -- Bev in Shirley BC, near Sooke on beautiful Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
