lacemakers

Today, Bruges lace is popular with beginning lacemakers as it is easier to learn than most lace and is worked with very few bobbins comparatively speaking.

[the art of lace making] brugge and surrounds 2009

Today, Bruges lace is popular with beginning lacemakers as it is easier to learn than most lace and is worked with very few bobbins comparatively speaking.

Archive 2009-07-01 2009

Queen Victoria's wedding gown took more than 100 lacemakers six months to make and the pattern was destroyed so it could not be duplicated.

Beverly Wettenstein: Valentine's "Cost of Loving" Increase Matches "Cost of Living" Increase 2009

On the 'bertha' term: lacemakers refer to the deep flounce itself as a 'Bertha'.

Dress A Day Research Challenge - A Dress A Day 2006

The women are lacemakers, and lose their health by sedentary labour, for which they were very ill paid.

The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley 2003

The bulk of his cargo in the main hold were simple laborers and tradesmen, journeymen fallen on hard times, smiths and vineyard-dressers and lacemakers, plunged into debt by illness or addiction or poor judgment, and now paying the forfeit of their debts with their own flesh.

Ship Of Magic Hobb, Robin 1998

In addition to those who chose prostitution as a full-time profession, many women engaged in certain low paying trades (specifically needlewomen, slopworkers, actresses, seamstresses, and lacemakers) resorted to "casual prostitution" in times of economic hardship.

Jack the Ripper As the Threat of Outcast London. Robert F. Haggard Robert F. Haggard 1993

The people of Arras are uncommonly dirty, and the lacemakers do not in this matter differ from their fellow-citizens; yet at the door of a house, which, but for the surrounding ones, you would suppose the common receptacle of all the filth in the vicinage, is often seated a female artizan, whose fingers are forming a point of unblemished whiteness.

A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Part I. 1792 Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners An English Lady

The people of Arras are uncommonly dirty, and the lacemakers do not in this matter differ from their fellow-citizens; yet at the door of a house, which, but for the surrounding ones, you would suppose the common receptacle of all the filth in the vicinage, is often seated a female artizan, whose fingers are forming a point of unblemished whiteness.

A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Complete Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners An English Lady

They say that the lacemakers of Nottingham don't have to be taught how to make lace because, as children, they somehow absorb most of the necessary knowledge in the bosom of their family, and I think the same thing is true of sons and brothers of football players.

Football Days Memories of the Game and of the Men behind the Ball William Hanford Edwards