I’ve also seen these workers listed as ‘Perl worker’. Perl being another name
for a picot.
Diana
> On 14 Jul 2019, at 16:38, Alice Howell wrote:
>
> The early lace machines tried to replicate known lace styles. Some styles
> they could do partially but they had to have some work done by
The early lace machines tried to replicate known lace styles. Some styles they
could do partially but they had to have some work done by hand. For example,
gimp and picots.
If a lace style had a gimp outline on the motifs, this would be sewn in by hand
with a needle. If the lace style
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
