Brian asks
Does anyone collect "Lace Tokens?" Real or virtual.
They certainly do. And not just lacemakers. I have a friend who is a serious
Numismaticist, and collects lots of trade tokens. They also write about them
in journals and books.
Iâve seen announcements recently on Facebook about this new book and wanted
to make sure The Arachne group is aware of it. Iâve copied the verbiage
below from Louise Westâs website, louisewestlacedesign.co.uk. I think other
people have it for sale also and Amazon.uk. Itâs spiral bound. On
That was interesting Louise,
One of the things I do is keep an eye out for "England's Oldest Bobbin".
Currently it is a Honiton Trolley dated 1662. We stand a chance with Honiton
bobbins to reasonably date the bobbins because many have a date on them. What
I took from your email, was that
Brian,
Pat Brunsden wrote an article for Lace - the Lace Guild magazine - a few years
ago detailing a survey of census data for the lace villages of Cambridgeshire
/Huntingdonshire. I can dig it out for you over the weekend if no one else has
done so. Nicky Howener-Townsend has done
I have been asked to write an essay about this wonderful lace lady and lace
designer!! (UK and USA)
You will have to be monstrously "old" to have known her/ met her, but if you
have done any of these things can you drop me a note please. I have very
little , "lace/ and Marian as a person", to
Thank you all for your ideas and contributions.
Basically I have a list of 160 (plus) towns in the "East Midlands" Derived
from " you" the books I have, and a couple recommended to me.
( --Lace making areas, East Midlands: Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Large
section of Northamptonshire,
