Hi Brian Honiton lace comprised of motifs that were either connected together by âbridesâ or mounted onto a net ground for making up into the finished article, so perhaps the term lace sewer is referring to the women whose job this was?
The term lace worker may have been used interchangeably for either the lace maker or the lace sewer? During my own research of villages within a 10 mile radius and across the range of the different census years I found that the terms lace maker, lace weaver and lace worker were used, but that which one depended very much upon the individual enumerator. I found that each was consistent in their use of term throughout their recording. I also found that a woman described as a lace worker in one census might well be described by one of the alternatives in a subsequent census again depending on who the enumerator was. There is usually a page for each district that states who the enumerator was, some enumerators covered more than one district and some did the job for more than one census year. Nicky H-T in Suffolk UK > > Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2019 17:01:24 +1000 > From: <brid...@bigpond.com> > Subject: [lace] census records and definitions > > May of you will know that we have nothing more than two names that were > recorded by Gertude Whiting as being maker of Honiton lace bobbins. They > are Mr Miller and Mr Goode. They appear both to be Beer residents, though > it is possible that Mr Millers mother married again (??) I am guessing the > Gertrude Whiting visited in the 1920s. > > I have read most of the books about Devon lace/ families etc, but not a > mention of bobbin decorators. Am I fated to never know who made them and > who decorated them? (leave aside seamen, perhaps shepherds or possibly > children (Naé£e bobbins) > > - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
