Hi Arachnids One of my lacemaking friends came from a lacemaking Bedfordshire family. Iâm not sure the era she was talking about but in her family lacemaking was not considered such drudgery. Men worked on the land and earned sufficient to keep their families. However, they preferred to marry lacemakers as they would be able to earn extra money to, as my friend put it, put jam on their bread or have another dress. Making lace paid for the extras, not the essentials of life.
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