RE: [lace] Fwd: Life in Olney a Hundred Years Ago - Lace Tells Reference (Long Post)

[J-D Hammett]

Hi Devon, Jeri and fellow Arachnids,

Thank you Devon and Jeri for your very interesting (long) email on this book
and on lace tells.

Joepie


From: Devon Thein
Sent: 03 November 2017 16:19
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Subject: [lace] Fwd: Life in Olney a Hundred Years Ago - Lace Tells Reference
(Long Post)

>From Jeri


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Subject: Life in Olney a Hundred Years Ago - Lace Tells Reference (Long
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Subject is the sub-title of a book published in 1890 by Seeley and Co.,
Limited, Essex Street Strand.   Main title is "On the Banks of the Ouse",
written by Emma Marshall.

This is a little-known work of fiction about life in 1790 (Jane Austen era
1775-1817) that some might like to read not only for the reference to Lace
Tells but also for other lace-related descriptions of that time, and by my
sharing, this will be in our Arachne archives. <...
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Submitted by Jeri Ames in Maine USA
Lace and Embroidery Resource Center

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[lace] tells

[Lorelei Halley]

I found this url on Facebook. I can't remember if anybody has already posted
it.

http://torch.ox.ac.uk/themes/tellings-reconstructing-repertoire-songs-used-e
nglish-lace-schools 

 

Lorelei

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[lace] 2017 Arachne Card Exchange

[Liz Roberts]

I also received a wonderful card from Lin Hudren this past week. I am still 
working on my lace ornaments and hope to have them finished and on their way 
soon.


Liz Roberts in cloudy and breezy SW Missouri, USA Today's high is supposed to 
be around 50 degrees F, but Sunday might break the record with temperatures 
around 80 degrees F. 

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[lace] Fwd: Life in Olney a Hundred Years Ago - Lace Tells Reference (Long Post)

[Devon Thein]

>From Jeri


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From: jeria...@aol.com
To: www.l...@arachne.com
Sent: 11/3/2017 10:50:14 AM Eastern Standard Time
Subject: Life in Olney a Hundred Years Ago - Lace Tells Reference (Long
Post)

Subject is the sub-title of a book published in 1890 by Seeley and Co.,
Limited, Essex Street Strand.   Main title is "On the Banks of the Ouse",
written by Emma Marshall.

This is a little-known work of fiction about life in 1790 (Jane Austen era
1775-1817) that some might like to read not only for the reference to Lace
Tells but also for other lace-related descriptions of that time, and by my
sharing, this will be in our Arachne archives.  Being fiction, it is not
scanned to the Arizona site.  One of you will probably find an address to
share where anyone interested can read a scanned copy of the book without
spending what I did for the original.

Comment, please, so gmail users will know about this posting and read in
our archive.

Quote starting on page 56:

Drusilla Allen's cottage was, as she had told Cuthbert, not far from the
Round House or town prison, and between it and the house occupied for so
may years by the poet Cowper.

Drusilla's cottage had a large room, with oak rafters, which served for the
living-room of the family.  The door was generally open, and the women who
sat at the lace-pillows were near it, for light was precious, and the small
lattice-windows did not admit much of either sun or air.

By the wide hearth a sickly, elderly woman lay propped up with pillows,
scarcely able to move hand or foot, crippled with rheumatism and wholly
dependent on the exertions of her daughter, Drusilla.  There was the child,
too, of a widowed sister to support -- a fair-haired, blue-eyed little
maiden, whose bright presence Drusilla could ill have spared.  Her sister
was supposed to take her part in keeping the house tidy, wait on her
mother, and perform all the little offices in the household which
Drusilla's work prevented her from sharing.

Early and late the lace-makers were at their pillows.  Olney was then a
lace-making town.  We are told that there were lace schools, where twenty
or thirty children were taught by "old hands", whose monotonous singing of
songs, called "lace tellings", might be heard at any hour of the day, as
travellers passed the cottages, whose doors, like Drusilla's, were mostly
open.

On this bright summer morning Drusilla was seated at her pillow, with three
workers round her.

One of these, a young girl, was employed to turn the bobbin wheel and fill
the bobbins with thread.  The others were wholly engrossed with their
pillows, supported partly on their knees, and partly by a pillow-horse, a
kind of wooden stool with three legs.  There was no lace-maker in Olney
more expert than Drusilla, and there was always a rivalry amongst the young
women to be employed by her.

The lace-workers, too, prided themselves on the smartness of their pillows;
the rows of pins had bright-coloured heads, made of beads, and the bobbins
were gaily spangled; sometimes carved with the initials of the possessor;
often glittering with coins and beads.  These bobbins were very highly
prized, and sometimes descended in one family as an heirloom.

Submitted by Jeri Ames in Maine USA
Lace and Embroidery Resource Center

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Re: [lace] Lace tells

[Maureen]

Thank you everyone.

Maureen
E Yorks UK

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Re: [lace] 2017 Arachne Card Exchange

[Ann Blunden]

 I received a beautiful card from Lin Hudren, with a beautiful bell on 
a red card.


Thank you Lin, your card is ready to go and will be posted on Monday.

Ann Blunden in Brisbane Queensland  Australia

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